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Bugs

This is one of the issues which I admit to having no answer for. The primary of those being: Why is our reality consistent with itself?

Given that an infinite number of realities exist, it seems to me that the percentage of them bearing a large degree of "coherence" would be small. In other words, because the "code" of each reality is randomly generated, sentient inhabitants should expect to find all kinds of random "bugs" - properties and laws that seem to have no bearing on anything else. In the case of our universe, however, all evidence seems to indicate that everything is governed by an unwavering set of physical laws - all of which seem to be necessary to our continued existence. I would expect, instead, that there might be additional, completely bizarre physical laws - for example, "when the universe reaches X years of age, instantaneously spawn a mass of Y size at location Z." It is possible, of course, that we simply haven't been looking for that kind of thing, and instead have been (successfully) attempting to explain any discrepancies as errors of human measurement or the like. Thus I would recommend we start to look for "bugs" in the laws of our universe that cannot be easily explained as such.

Another possibility, reminiscent of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, is that the nature of our particular reality makes it hard to corrupt. Because our reality is emergent, our existence as sentient beings is dependent on billions of years of just the right circumstances. So it's quite possible that we perceive our reality as "bug-free" simply because any bugs would have interfered with the evolution of our galaxy, our solar system, or life on Earth.

Regardless, the issue of bugs, and the fact that we don't have a scientific log of the ones affecting us, is an interesting one. Were we to discover any of these bugs, it would certainly lend more credence to my hypothesis.