On Monday, March 2, 2015, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/1/2015 6:10 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 2, 2015, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','meeke...@verizon.net');>> wrote: > >> On 3/1/2015 5:10 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> On 2 March 2015 at 11:20, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >> MWI doesn't explain the probabilities. >> >> So what would the probabilities be if MWI were true? >> >> >> >> >> Undefined. >> > > What would it be like to live in a world where probabilities were > undefined? Can you reason that we don't live in a world with undefined > probabilities and therefore we can't live in a multiverse? > > > Platonists just don't get it. Probabilities would be undefined by the > theory. They would still be defined operationally in the laboratory. >
Are you saying that in a multiverse (a concrete, infinite Tegmark Level One multiverse, for example) there is no way to calculate the probabilities from first principles, but nonetheless we could be living in such a world and would be able to measure probabilities experimentally? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
