On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:17 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You keep talking about "probability" but what does that word really >> mean? >> > > *> In the frequentist theory of probability, the meaning is fairly self > evident.* > It's fairly self evident that the Earth cannot be moving around the sun, but it does so nevertheless. In physics the further we get, In both size and time, from our normal everyday life the less accurate our intuition becomes because evolution just had no reason to make Quantum Mechanics seem intuitively obvious to us, we are too big and we move too slowly for quantum physics ability to help in getting our genes into the next generation. *> I am skeptical about absolute determinism. Given the HUP, we can never > predict the evolution of any system with absolute precision. AG* > Schrodinger's wave equation is absolutely deterministic, and if Many Worlds is right so is the multiverse, The inhabitants of the third rock from the sun cannot make predictions that are always perfectly correct, but that is not a contradiction of a deterministic Multiverse John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> , > -- 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/CAJPayv3uyvQRATHa-rrLjFgvke%2BuW3fQR_mfN1ThE5gZourf-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
