On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:16 PM Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le lun. 1 juil. 2019 à 13:35, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:32 PM Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>>> But you spend more 'time' living between the ages of 40 and 90 than you >>>> do between the ages of 1 and 20! >>>> >>> >>> And so what ? you have to have been 20 to be then between 40 and 90... >>> your moments are successive *and not picked up at random*. >>> >> >> That does not address the point that I made -- there are more moments >> between 40 and 90 than between 1 and 20, so you spend more time in your >> mature years. Pick a time at random, you are likely to be mature. Your >> points about ordering and succession are completely irrelevant to the main >> point being made. >> > > Again *we don't pick our life moment at random*... I'm living *every day, > every second* of my life, there is no wonder to live your life, if your > theory is that every human should be between 40 and 90, because they have > more moments between 40 and 90 than between 1 and 20, it's absurd... and > false. > That is not my theory -- straw man argument on your part. The point of the argument I seek to make is that we can "pick a moment at random". If at age 90 you look back on your life, you will conclude that you spent more time between 40 and 90 than between 1 and 20. That is a simple fact of arithmetic. So if, at 90, you decide to pick a moment at random from your life to typify what your life, on the whole, has been like, putting a uniform distribution over conscious moments and picking one at random, you are more like to pick a moment in which you are elderly, and are surrounded by younger people. This becomes even more likely the longer you live. So looking back at age 500 years, you will have spent most of your life as an elderly person. Your objection seems to be that we don't come into existence at a random moment over our lifespan. True enough. But that is not what the argument depends on. 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/CAFxXSLQscxLFqc5%2BfrfwhCbbGhB3Lz4xv_toh-ouCWdBuPVhVg%40mail.gmail.com.
