On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 6:56:39 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 11/26/2017 9:39 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On 27 November 2017 at 16:19, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 27/11/2017 4:06 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> On 26 November 2017 at 13:33, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> You keep ignoring the obvious 800 pound gorilla in the room; introducing >>> Many Worlds creates hugely more complications than it purports to do away >>> with; multiple, indeed infinite observers with the same memories and life >>> histories for example. Give me a break. AG >>> >> >> What about a single, infinite world in which everything is duplicated to >> an arbitrary level of detail, including the Earth and its inhabitants, an >> infinite number of times? Is the bizarreness of this idea an argument for a >> finite world, ending perhaps at the limit of what we can see? >> >> >> That conclusion for the Level I multiverse depends on a particular >> assumption about the initial probability distribution. Can you justify that >> assumption? >> > > The assumption is the Cosmological Principle, that the part of the > universe that we can see is typical of the rest of the universe. Maybe it's > false; but my question is, is the strangeness of a Level I multiverse an > *argument* for its falseness? > > > A multiverse is not a strange hypothesis. If the universe arose from some > physical process, then it is natural to suppose that same process could > operate to produce multiple universes. This is true even for supernatural > creation: even if a god or gods created the universe they might very well > create many. > > Brent >
Agreed. The subject is entirely speculative with zero evidence AFAICT. I don't believe in infinite repeats, and I offered a thought experiment to show a scenario with no repeats. AG -- 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.
