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If other universe contain all logical possibilities, then yes. David Lewis talks about this and points out the moral issue is that even if you choose to do good
by _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
If other universe contain all logical possibilities, then yes. David Lewis talks about this and points out the moral issue is that even if you choose to do good things in this universe, in some universe your alternate is a psychopathic torturer, so decisions to do good don't actually lessen universal suffering, if calculated across all alternate universes. I think his conclusion was that it's still desirable to locally decrease suffering anyway.
- prmph 8y agoBut, apart from the moral absurdities, there are logical inconsistencies. In a certain universe, there will exist a God capable of influencing all other universes, and thus constraining the set of possibilities, no?
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoAnd yet in another universe there’s a god that controls the other god.
- tdfx 8y agoThe gods are sandboxed, so unless they've discovered an escalation vulnerability in the multiverse substrate, they can execute any permutation of possible behavior but never affect the lower layer. If that happens, it's back to "turtles all the way down" as we then try to figure out what's running the multiverse VM.