David Wallace
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compounds over time in the same formal way a probability does.
So all of that's observer um independent, all of that stuff you can say about the early universe long before there were humans.
Um
Does that measure that I said has the formal properties of probability is it probability?
Well, to some extent that's a semantic definitional question.
Um
But one way you can
precisify it is to say, well
Does it play the same operational roles as probability does?
Well, some of those operational roles are just things about dynamics.
I mean, so for instance, does it d does does it um does it compound over time the way probability does?
Yes, it does.
Again, that's totally objective fact, totally independent of humans.
The mathematical one of the things probability does is obey certain synchronic diachronic axioms, uh, it obeys the commogar of axioms in instant.
time, uh it compounds over time in accordance with various updating rules.
Um mods grammatitude does all that stuff.
If you're happy that doing all that stuff exhausts the nature of probability, hooray, you're happy with Maywell's theory.
If you're not happy, then you wanna know, okay, what else has been left out and arguably what's been left out is the probability itself has to have a certain conceptual connection with the scientific method.
Um that's a defensible I think that's probably right, in any case it's defensible.
That statement is independent of quantum mechanics.
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