RE: My Life's Story and Views
December 25, 2018 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2018 at 11:24 pm by GrandizerII.)
Well, of course the world is strange. So there must have to be something out there. I mean, look at quantum mechanics and relativity. There's crazy shit happening at scales too extreme for us that doesn't conform so easily to our limited human intuition.
As for coincidences, like I might have said in one of your other threads, there are naturalistic [possible] explanations for these perceived remarkable connections. According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, for example, if there is any possibility that a certain remarkable coincidence is bound to happen, then it will happen in some universe out there, and this universe is not exempt from any such remarkable coincidences.
But even if you disregard the MWI, and posit that only this universe exists, that something is even remotely possible means (by definition) that it can happen. We also need to be aware that we're not exactly good at coming up with the right probabilities for events, and our attention is very limited so it's easy to miss important details about an event that otherwise would've adequately provided a more satisfactory explanation for the event and thereby raised its odds of happening in our minds.
As for coincidences, like I might have said in one of your other threads, there are naturalistic [possible] explanations for these perceived remarkable connections. According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, for example, if there is any possibility that a certain remarkable coincidence is bound to happen, then it will happen in some universe out there, and this universe is not exempt from any such remarkable coincidences.
But even if you disregard the MWI, and posit that only this universe exists, that something is even remotely possible means (by definition) that it can happen. We also need to be aware that we're not exactly good at coming up with the right probabilities for events, and our attention is very limited so it's easy to miss important details about an event that otherwise would've adequately provided a more satisfactory explanation for the event and thereby raised its odds of happening in our minds.
