[David M] You mention the difference between plans and being able to carry them out and then immediately ignore the key distinction completely. When I refer to the possible I am referring to what is available to bring about otherwise I would call it the impossible. Of course our plans cannot easily distinguish them but reality has no such problem!
[Krimel] I don't think I am ignoring this distinction at all. Notice how the range of possibility is ever more restricted the closer to the present you set things. The distribution of probabilities fans out from the present. I have been trying for sometime to claim that all probabilities collapse to 100% in the present. This NOW is when things happen. Instances of time are increasingly probabilistic the farther from the present you get. This applies to the past as well as the future. The future is probabilistic because our models of it are subject to uncertainties introduced by quantum mechanics at a deep level and just lack of data in the macro level. The past is probabilistic because our memories are faulty or we have incomplete records of what happened or our methods of historical reconstruction are flawed. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
