On 1/16/2014 10:14 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:44 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 1/15/2014 11:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:44 AM, freqflyer07281972
<thismindisbud...@gmail.com
<mailto:thismindisbud...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I totally agree with you that science, when you really start getting
into the
implications of things like QM (and relativity for that matter),
provides some
rather unsettling (and yet very exciting!) conclusions. And yet... they
always
rest on the tip of uncertainty. Either that, or else the conclusions
are so
terrible that I can't bear to think of them.
I have come to think few things could be more certain than universalism. If
you
take a few moments to consider why you were born as you, and not someone
else, the
only possible answer that fits that answer is for "me" to be born, an exact
arrangement of matter or genes had to come into being. If the exact matter
was
necessary, then that means if your mom at something else, or took a sip of
water at
the wrong time, then you would never have been born. If the exact genes are
required, then that means you had a 1 in 100 million chance that the right
sperm
met the right egg for you to be born, otherwise you would not exist at all.
The
odds become that much more staggering when you consider not only your
begetting,
but all other begettings of all your ancestors would have to be EXACTLY
right,
otherwise you would not be born and would never have existed.
So what? Someone wins the lottery no matter how many tickets there are.
But can you a priori expect to be one of the winners? Should you not have some level of
surprise when you find out you are a winner, and possibly seek some more probable
explanations (my kids are pranking me, I am dreaming, etc.)?
On the other hand, if you believe even if one gene or two were different,
you would
still have been born, this means there really was no specific requirement
for you
to be born as you, and if a completely different sperm or egg were
fertilized, then
maybe you would instead be one of your brothers or sisters. If this is
true, then
shouldn't that mean you are in fact, also your brothers and sisters.
So my Volkswagen is actually the same as my neighbors Volkswagen because
there was
no specific requirement for them to differ except for one on two bumps in
the
ignition lock. I think I'll suggest that to him; his has a lot fewer miles
on it
than mine.
No, you are missing the point. It is not that they are similar enough to be you, it is
that they share everything that was necessary for /you /to be present in them. Your
current perspective does not rule out that you are seeing from their eyes,
Then why don't I always win at poker?
just as seeing only one branch does not mean the wave function collapsed, and nor does
seeing only one time prove presentism. The simpler hypothesis by far is that you are
born as all of them,
Simpler, but contradicted by observation. "God did it." is even simpler.
rather than believing there is some special or privileged person which is the only
person in the whole universe whose entire life /you /will experience.
Except that is the definition of "you": the life you experience
Brent
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