I am betting that as a brains age, the world itself doesn't get weirder, but our perceptions of what is correct and true, can. We have experience, say, apart from when we were 18-26 years old and remember the past. Hopefully, technology will make things weirder, in a mostly good way. If you go into the geological past, animals and plants became different as climate and geology changed. The Eocene of 55 million years ago produced different plants and animals, over the Miocene, X-number of millions of years later.
-----Original Message----- From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Dec 27, 2016 6:04 am Subject: The Weirdening I take a break from the god-wars to propose an idea that I have been thinking about. This is probably both silly and unoriginal, but here it goes... If we assume the MWI, isn't it the case that we should expect the world to become weirder as we get older? My reasoning is simple: the older you are, the lower your measure, the more specific events have to "conspire" to keep you alive. As this specificity accumulates, it increasingly bias the possible worlds. One could even use a chart like the one below to predict where "the weirdening" would accelerate. Of course this is not something that can be directly measured, but still fun to think about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table#/media/File:Data_from_National_Vital_Statistics_Report_tPx.png Do you guys think this idea has any merit? Regarding the season, my wishes for you all: live long and prosper! Telmo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
