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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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Is Your Past a Random Fluctuation?

The number of randomly fluctuating observers like that is enormously larger than the mber of thermo dynamically sensible observers. There are still, if you live in that eternally fluctuating cos ology, there are still observers that look exactly like you, but are random fluctuations by same as you. If i give you your entire past and say i conditionalize on observers like that, they are still likely to be part of a bigger thermal equiquilibrium. It just your previous experience was just a random fluctuation.

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