On 7/6/2025 8:18 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote
///>/***it's an odd quirk of evolution that emotionally most
bipedal hominids are not frightened by infinity,unless they think
about it too deeply, but very large finite numbers are instantly
and viscerally scary.*
/> I'd have to see some survey results before I believed that./
*I don't have a survey I can cite to back up my claim,to my knowledge
such a study has never been made.However I know that some people, even
some very distinguished physicists, have no problem at all with an
infinite universe, but react with the utmost horror at the thought
that string theory, and its 10^500 different landscapes, might
actually be real. *
Is "utmost" that level of horror you express when contemplating
superdeterminism?
Brent
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