Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >
> * > Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one and > only one very specific initial condition.* Incorrect, none of the others demand specificity, none of the others are picky about initial conditions. No other cosmological theory needs the universe to start out in one and only one very specific state for the idea to work, nearly any state would do. Superdeterminism is unique, no other deterministic theory, or theory of any sort, requires that the universe began in one and only one very very very specific initial condition, the only one that supports their pet theory. If the many world's idea could be ruled out in some other way nobody in their right mind would propose an idea as ridiculous as superdeterminism. Nobody! Nearly all initial conditions would have resulted in a universe that looked pretty much like this one, but one hyper-rare one won't. There is one chance in an astronomical^2 number (or more) it did not, and superdeterministic fans insist that must be the very one it did start out in because they're desperate to avoid many worlds. Well OK two can play at that game, maybe despite all the evidence to the contrary, Fred Hoyle's steady state cosmological theory is correct after all but the universe started out in the one and only initial condition that would forever mislead us into thinking it is not. Or maybe the geocentric theory is correct and everything in the universe really does rotate around the earth. If the initial conditions were just right dinosaur bones could have been formed from non-biological geology less than 4000 years ago, so maybe dinosaurs were never flesh and blood and never lived more than 66 million years ago. If you don't like a theory, any theory not just many worlds, all you have to do is just ignore all the evidence that it's true and claim that the initial conditions are causing us to be deceived. This way lies madness. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> mda > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0wDLU2nYLycf8QrNK53TW1o5toX5jtLzfc%2BwRFFOpZ4g%40mail.gmail.com.
