(March 13, 2026 at 2:42 pm)Disagreeable Wrote:(March 13, 2026 at 2:38 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Right -- but how would we actually know which one was which? I should have phrased my question better.
Good question. It's possible that we couldn't possibly know the difference despite there being one.
This goes in favor of your point of determinism being unfalsifiable. I also think that it's unfalsifiable. But I am a determinist, or a necessitarian to be more specific, because I think that there being only one possible world is more parsimonious than there being multiple possible worlds. Reality can make sense just as well without assuming that things could have happened in multiple different ways at any given moment, we don't have to assume that there is more than one way that things can go in any given moment, all we have to assume is that we're capable of imagining things going multiple different ways, even if they can't.
It's cool. I like to tell myself I have free will, not because I am sure that's true, but because I don't want to think of myself as an automaton. A multiverse, one universe with multiple possible outcomes, or one universe with only one possible outcome -- not only is that above my own pay-grade, it's well outside the scope of current human knowledge.
Like it or not, "I don't know" is the most accurate answer, in my opinion.
