On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> After >> >> the experience is done >> they *STILL* can't >> give any more precise information >> . >> > > > > Correct. That is the incommunicability, or unprovability that we can > survive (any experience). But we are working in the computationalist frame, > where we accept that we surivive, independently that it is unprovable. > A prediction means stating something now that will be known with certainty in the future, if that something is not known now and is not known in the future either then the failure to know it now is not a failure of prediction. There is simply nothing there to know. > > > I can predict that a coin will fall on HEAD or on TAIL with certainty > In retrospect you can do much better than that, you can say "I should have said the coin will fall on TAILS with 100% certainty"; but even in retrospect there is no correct answer to the question "what one and only one city will I end up in?". And that fact means it wasn't a question at all. John K Clark > -- 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.
