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Ep 185: Possibility and Actuality. Facts and Counterfactuals.

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The Multiverse and the Denial of Humanity

In reality, all we ever have are the observed tosses. And then we have an additional story that, oh, it came up heads, but it could have come up tails. Why do we think that about that last toss? And what are we claiming is true about the physics of things if we say it could have been otherwise? I think we're claiming that probability is true. That it allows us to have a nice model about the world, because it's hoping about the world. So they need David Deutsch. Not necessarily in person, just his lecture on probability on my breakdown. That's the salve. But let's take this even deeper. We are beings of cosmic

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