tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post365513783945064860..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: The universe might not be big enoughJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-21581826941897819132019-06-13T07:35:10.446+01:002019-06-13T07:35:10.446+01:00My purely mathematical response would be to argue ...My purely mathematical response would be to argue that any number of possibilities limited by the finite nature of the universe in which we live is necessarily a very small number compared to infinity, because 'inifinity' is awfully, awfully big.<br /><br />But you are, of course, correct in suggesting that my own priors colour my judgement, as they do for everyone else. If, though, we were by chance living in that one unique universe in which Boris Johnson was regarded as an honest politician, might we not expect to see rather more evidence of that honesty?John Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-71608826975947313062019-06-12T18:08:23.755+01:002019-06-12T18:08:23.755+01:00So, John, aren’t your conclusions arrived at from ...So, John, aren’t your conclusions arrived at from a before-the-fact pov in which you don’t want Boris as PM regardless whether he may or may not make a success of it – “… we can probably safely conclude that there is unlikely to be a universe anywhere in which Boris Johnson is regarded as an honest and realistic politician”. <br />However, since we don’t know how many multiverses the theory postulates, just not an infinite number, then surely we don’t have the information required to make that conclusion (a bit like the Brexit argument).<br />And, if that number tends toward infinity rather than zero then surely the probability of such a universe is much higher and if we work on that premise then why is so hard to believe that we are actually that very universe. <br />Dannyooshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771745597938562459noreply@blogger.com