83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
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The Mintaculous
The word nintaculous comes from maybe the best move I ever made in philosophy. In a movie by the Cone brothers called a serious man, there's a character who is crazy and never gets out of his pajamas. He has a brother who does have a major role, but his brother is scribbling in a book. And someone asks his brother, what are you doing? And he says, I'm composing the ninticulous. Then the person asks him, what is that? He says, it's a probability map of the universe. Well, what do I think David Albert and I have come up with here? It's something like a probabilitymap of
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