On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The difference between the past and the future in a deterministic > multiverse is that for an observer inside it the past is known but the > future is uncertain. Although it uncertain, it can be guessed at or > calculated using probability theory. If it can be guessed at or calculated, > questions about it are not "meaningless", > Predictions are meaningless if nobody knows what is being predicted, and that's exactly what happens when personal pronouns and not proper nouns are used in a world with personal pronoun duplicating machines. Even the very concept of probability itself becomes meaningless if its impossible for anyone to EVER know if the event the probability refers to happened or not, and that is also the case with Bruno's thought experiment. And that explains the title of this thread. 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.
