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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Fallacy of Predicting What We Should Be Like if the Certain Multiverse Were True

"I think that this question of predicting what we should be like if the certain multiverse were true is exactly wrong-headed," he says. "We're us. We are what we are like, and you could probably say this even classically in a big fluctuating ensemble." He continues: "If that probability is one, who cares if there's many more people not like you? ... Certain probabilities we just don't care about".

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