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Throughout my youth, I always considered a similar thought experiment. Make the assumption you were some higher power with no concept of 'time' (or lived forev
by mrtron 18y ago
Throughout my youth, I always considered a similar thought experiment.
Make the assumption you were some higher power with no concept of 'time' (or lived forever in our concept of time). What would you do?
Well, I believe you would get very bored quickly, and the only logical solution is to run some experiments. I would start small (lets for arguments sake say at the molecular level, but almost certainly it would be at a smaller level in our perceived world) and create every possibility. That would not take very long - so you would have to create an infinite number of expanding test areas. Each one of these you could equate to what we consider our universe. So basically you are testing every possible 'path' that could exist.
I haven't put it very well to words here due to time constraints - but basically it seems like a logical conclusion that we exist in one of these 'paths'.
- m0nty 18y ago"Make the assumption ... it seems like a logical conclusion" For me, that sums up the problem with this kind of thing. Assumptions don't lead to logical conclusions, but "meta-assumptions" which have grown out of your original one. You can't put assumptions in one end of your experiment and get facts out the other, unless you can test your ideas. Incidentally, I'm not hostile to your idea or the others discussed here. It's fascinating, but (like anything for which we can't acquire proof) my own belief is that it's not very useful.
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