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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation

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

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The Indeterministic World

I think that that's roughly true, although I haven't stated it perfectly. It does seem consistent to me with the idea that you can go into the past as a time traveler in a single world universe and the things that you know have to happen in your future now are going to happen. You can't prevent them, but there's other things you don't know where you would act exactly as if you have free will about doing this or that. Do you think there's a difference? So suppose God was building two different worlds. The first world that God is building, you can know the initial conditions and the laws and use that information,. Or not you, but some super mind,

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