On 11/11/2013 10:42 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2013/11/11 meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>>
On 11/11/2013 12:11 AM, LizR wrote:
On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote:
On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Sure, but the thing is that *you have to*, and asking such question
at
that stage is very likely... you can't be 10⁵ years old before
having
been 1 year old... it's simply nonsense.
So you're falling back on the all-purpose 'everything' answer;
whatever
you observe is one of everything and that why everything is
consistent
with it - like why I'm not a Chinaman?
There isn't any falling back here that I can see. It seems quite
reasonable to
say you have to pass through your birthdays in ascending order. I can't
see
why that is problematic / contraversial?
Sure, but if I live infinitely long I will have almost all my
experiences older
than 75. So when I note that I'm not that old and that seems
improbable, it's
not an answer to say, "Well, less than 75 is an age you must be sometime."
Jason at least had an answer, although I don't think his answer leads to
immortality either.
I didn't say "75 is an age you must be sometime" - I said "75 is an age you
must be
before you can be 76". You can only reach age N by traversing all lower
ages first.
You can't use a self-sampling argument to show that you shouldn't be your
current
age if you /have/ to pass through that age before you can experience any
greater ages.
I don't see the relevance of that. I had to pass through being 5 too.
Suppose you
are shown a machine and told that it is counting to infinity, i.e. indefinitely.
You're asked to guess what number it's on. Would you be surprised if it were on 75?
It depends how fast it counts and when it was built... If the machine was built
"recently", and it added 1 every year... no I wouldn't.
Suppose you were told it's been around forever.
Brent
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