--- Higgo James <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> What you have written is in perfect agreement with
> what I have been trying to say.
James, I guess this ends our alliance :(
> > From: Fritz Griffith
> > Basically, I realized that if we accept that
> > everything exists already, then why the hell do we
> > need to bring up probability?
To get retrodictions.
> > probability (1st person), but rather that we
> > experience everything (3rd person only),
I never understood the 1st/3rd person crap, so I
don't know what you mean. But I know this: effective
probabilities are important, and they have absolutely
nothing to do with the crap known as "1st person
probabilities".
> > is that we experience each and every universe,
> > guaranteed, but each one feels like it is the only
> > one. So we'll see things make sense (100%
> > guaranteed), and we'll see things not make sense
> > (100% guaranteed), and each of these experiences
> > will include the lack of knowledge of the other.
You seem to be saying, in effect, that there is
only one person that has all experiences. It sounds
like a useless definition.
> > In short, every thought exists, so why should I be
> > surprised to be having this thought? (as you would
> > say it).
You should only be surprised if your thought has
characteristics that have an unusually low effective
probability.
(Examples: you think of a long bit string, x,
which you obtained randomly. It looks random, so
while x has a low probability, you're not surprised.
If, however, you see the first 100 digits of pi
and you know you obtained them randomly, it's time to
be surprised - and suspicious of your random number
generator. This is a white rabbit.)
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Received on Wed May 10 2000 - 18:45:44 PDT