Hi Krim Again you are missing the distinction between what is possible for us, with our planand actions etc, and what is possible/impossible for the whole of reality, if we are to tell a cosmic story of which we are only a part. If you consider this, like Dirac you have to ponder the strange capacity of a so-called inanimate nature (pre-life) to make choices about events that have mulitple possibilities. Could be random, but with life we gety agency, is there anything inbetween?
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Heads or tails? > [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/ > 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/
