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Ep 185: Possibility and Actuality. Facts and Counterfactuals.

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The Unusual Sequence of Coincidences

In 0.999910 times per cent, two times in a row, you get orange juice, you get something weird happen, the second time you say abracadabra. This sequence of remarkable coincidence is a sequence of among the least likely things in existence. But on the other hand, when we humans actually cause stuff to happen, like when we create knowledge explanatory nodes, then the measure of universes where that thing happens grows across the multiverse. It gets replicated. In both cases, something possible is happening and is actual, but only in one of them does the proportion of the multiverse grow. In the other, it tapers off to nothingness. The deepest theories are

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