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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 Are the Kinds of Universes That Could Lead to Us?

If the early universe was smooth, then we would see what we see in our telescopes. But there's a number of different effects that give rise to the final wave length of light when we observe it. And this is just a fancy roundabout way of saying that given any medium antrope state, like us here in our telescope, looking at the past, there are many more high entropy pasts from which it could have evolved via a random fluctuation. So i know i'm repeating myself, butthe critical and kind of difficult points, i'll repeat it again. The statement is that for any conditions on your current microscopic self, if that's all you know, you don't

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