On 9/22/2019 8:20 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 5:43:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
On 9/22/2019 8:39 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
>
> This is a consequence also of eternal inflation, and Guth used
almost
> identical language saying everything that can happen happens an
> infinite number of times.
The problem is to figure out what CAN happen. There tends to be a
casual assumption that it's anything that can be imagined or anything
that is not a logical contradiction. The former is vague (can you
imagine that Puerto Rico exists?). The second can't be applied
because
the world is not a set of propositions. "Everything" is ill defined.
Quantum mechanics is often cited as proving that everything
happens, but
this is a misunderstanding. QM also predicts that some things
have zero
probability...that's why there are dark bands in a Young's slits
experiment.
Brent
Tegmark claimed that everything that's mathematically possible, must
occur.
Since the dark bands are NOT mathematically possible,
Of course they are mathematically possible. You just need to start with
the right axioms. Everything mathematically possible that is not self
contradictory (including a flat Earth and flying pigs).
Brent
Tegmark's general
claim cannot apply. So we must address ourselves to what IS mathematically
possible, which could include flying pigs with properly modified DNA.
I don't
subscribe to the claim of many or infinite copies of anything. I've
never seen
a proof of that; only assertions. And Jason mistakes the claim if it
comes from
Tegmark. He did NOT claim that anything CONCEIVABLE must occur. AG
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