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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

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

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How to Formulate the Past Hypothesis

Eric Chen says in your conversation with David Wallace, you two seem to disagree as to the best way of formulating the past hypothesis. What does a micro state with many crazy correlations actually mean and look like? I feel like I've listed a whole bunch of questions in a row to which the answer is I'm not sure or I'm not an expert or I don't know. It's very possible I did and I misspoke or changed my mind. The usual way to think about it following David Albert's book, Time and Chance from the year 2000, is to separate out two different hypotheses.

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