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> universe were just so that all of history would happen to lead to you typing that message, and me responding to it, solely by the physical interactions of par
by kaibee 3y ago
> universe were just so that all of history would happen to lead to you typing that message, and me responding to it, solely by the physical interactions of particles.
You're kinda committing a conjunctive fallacy w/ some anthropic bias. The thing you're not seeing is the infinite similar multiverses that would look indistinguishable to you and you need to remember that the known universe is, very big and the rest of it could be infinite. I don't know how big that number is, but its a lot more complicated than 'this is the only way this could have happened'.
- karaterobot 3y agoI certainly thought about that, but it seems a lot more believable to me that there's something missing from our current understanding than that this impossibly large number of interactions happened resulting in the just so universe we live in. That we live in the most absurd of all possible universes, the one where pre-determined clumps of matter post on Hacker News, typing each character one by one without choosing to do so, is harder to conceive of than that we just have free will at some level. And it's not at all hard for me to imagine that any supposed evidence, scientific or philosophical, is more than likely just flawed or limited in some way, so I have trouble buying in to arguments like this.