Sean Carroll
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4 series
first heard Apr 2024
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Okay.
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So JJP Master's question continues.
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It seems like
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Fully non-dexical conditioning would strongly favor the first model, the one where every universe uh is suspendable to life, as we cannot appeal to a selection effect to level the playing field.
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However, the first model would simply push back the anthropic question: why are life-permitting laws or constants necessary rather than resolving it as does the second model?
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Would you agree with this assessment, or do you agree?
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Do you think
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There is something that permits the relevant kind of anthropic reasoning used to argue for a multiverse from cosmic fine-tuning, given an FNC approach.
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So, for those of you who don't remember, when I did talk about this, fully non-indexical conditioning is the idea that you shouldn't close your eyes and pretend you're a typical observer in the universe.
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You know you're not a typical observer.
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You know all sorts of things about you that make you not typical.
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And there's no reason
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Not to use those things, not to be allowed to reason on the basis of them.
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So fully non-indexical conditioning is an idea, the label comes from Radford Neal.
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Philosophers have discussed similar things.
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Philosophers and scientists never talk to each other about these things.
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And the idea is just except for indexical facts, which is to say, if there are multiple copies of me, I don't know which one I am.
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That's a true uncertainty.
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And he lets that's that you're allowed to think yourself typical within the set of all people who look exactly like you, okay?
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That's fine.
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