Aaronson continues, making his “philosophical argument,” one of ten arguments he outlines for P ≠ NP: It’s possible to put the point in Darwinian terms: if this is the sort of universe we inhabited, why wouldn’t we already have evolved to take advantage of it? (Indeed, this is an argument not only for P ≠ NP, but for NP-complete problems not being efficiently solvable in the physical world.)
