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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

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

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What Credence Should We Have for Our Place in the Universe?

Credence being a degree of belief. How confident are we that these things are true? And in particular, there is actually two different sets of credences we need to think about. One is the standard scientific question of which theory is correct? Ok? Which theory is their multi cosmological multi verse or not? Is many worlds correct or is mbomin mechanics correct or something like that? So this is fundamentally a philosophical problem. Like, there's just no question, this is what philosophers were trained to do.

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