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There's a certain anthropic quality to the idea that if we lived in a doomsday timeline we'd be unlikely to be here observing it.
by catigula 1y ago
There's a certain anthropic quality to the idea that if we lived in a doomsday timeline we'd be unlikely to be here observing it.
- uoaei 1y agoHumanist, maybe. The anthropic argument is tautological: nothing is a doomsday without there being someone for whom the scenario spells certain doom.
- catigula 1y agoHow is it tautological? Some form of it is the very basis of atheism. Doomsday timelines have lower numbers of observers. In all timelines where you are no longer an observer,i.e. all current doomsday timelines, your observation has ceased.
- uoaei 1y agoTo repeat myself: if there is no life to experience doom, then whatever happens still happens, but it is not "doom". In other words, doom is a moral construct. Morality only exists when a being draws a line between "good" and "bad", it is not a real thing that exists.
- catigula 1y agoMerely saying something does not make it so. I feel like you're too far off what I would consider a thread of conversation to continue this, I wish you well though.