On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/21/2019 4:57 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > From the first person point of view, after all, the probability is not > known in advance. > > > I'm not sure what "known" means in that. If you toss a coin to you "know > in advance" the probability of heads in 1/2? > You generally assume this if you can assume that the coin is fair. But there is no sense in which you actually 'know' this. .... Not all unlikely events are governed by quantum probabilities. Most are > just due to good old classical chance..... > > > That's not really clear to me. "Good old classical chance" is just > quantifying ignorance. At a fundamental level there must be either > inherent chance, QM, or determinism. > "Good old classical chance" is ignorance of the detailed initial conditions. It is assumed that "classical" refers to the determinism that reigns in classical physics. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRTRqoFpLH3AOsSttUgPYVyiPp44xrDOvFzOxHTWdyAsg%40mail.gmail.com.
