#318 - Physics & Philosophy
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Uncanny View of Possible Worlds
How does someone like David Lewis get wrapped around the axle of positing possible worlds that really exist, and that's the only way to understand possibility philosophically? Well, I mean, well, let me just note the rhetoric. If you're in philosophy, you very soon have to give up on the how could somebody as smart as X believe something as crazy as this? Because that problem extends beyond philosophy. So intelligence isn't really the issue. We've got the primitives of the laws of nature which do their work. And that is enough to cover all the conversations we might want to have about counterfactuals,. The notion that things could have been otherwise, et cetera
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