On 2/24/2015 10:28 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
First person indeterminacy is just another name for "in-principle
unknowable"!
No it's not. It provides an explanation of how the world can be completely
deterministic but to you as an observer within it appear truly random, so that not even
God would be able to tell you what you will experience next.
That seems to me to be a very good case of something being "in-principle unknowable". If
it is not "in-principle unknowable", the onus is on you to spell out the principles and
circumstances in which the time of the radioactive decay of a particular atom is
knowable in advance.
MWI means, "I know it when I see it." :-)
But more seriously, for FPI to apply to radioactive decay requires a continuum of
observers to observe the decay at all times.
Brent
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