by JHL » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:37 pm
paladin17 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:13 am
As I've indicated in
my video, indeed if one naively uses the statistical apparatus to describe the Universe, one quickly concludes that the
present moment is impossible.
Even from a very simple mechanistical point of view: if we have an observable volume of 10^26 meters with 10^80 particles in it, then the chances that we'd have the exact positioning of them that we observe right now (doesn't really matter what "right now" we are talking about - it is applicable to any moment in time) are indistinguishable from zero.
Conclusion: statistics may be useful in certain areas, but this is not one of them.
Of course the present moment is impossible. That's not an audacious point of view either; it's the self-evident, conscious point.
Any distillation of the encoded information in DNA such that it somehow equals blind happenstance in a corner of time and space is a damn difficult hypothetical - let's build your premise out a little more realistically than that, Paladin.
I think it's beyond naive to conflate sand with architecture. Existence utterly violates the status quo, which is that neither could possibly exist. And yet here they both are (along with the ability to express unsupportable claims like if you see the place in a particular way, statistical analysis mayn't exist).
[quote=paladin17 post_id=4783 time=1615889612 user_id=29470]
As I've indicated in [url=https://youtu.be/28nYj-65Hjk]my video[/url], indeed if one naively uses the statistical apparatus to describe the Universe, one quickly concludes that the [i]present moment is impossible[/i].
Even from a very simple mechanistical point of view: if we have an observable volume of 10^26 meters with 10^80 particles in it, then the chances that we'd have the exact positioning of them that we observe right now (doesn't really matter what "right now" we are talking about - it is applicable to any moment in time) are indistinguishable from zero.
Conclusion: statistics may be useful in certain areas, but this is not one of them.
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Of course the present moment is impossible. That's not an audacious point of view either; it's the self-evident, conscious point.
Any distillation of the encoded information in DNA such that it somehow equals blind happenstance in a corner of time and space is a damn difficult hypothetical - let's build your premise out a little more realistically than that, Paladin.
I think it's beyond naive to conflate sand with architecture. Existence utterly violates the status quo, which is that neither could possibly exist. And yet here they both are (along with the ability to express unsupportable claims like if you see the place in a particular way, statistical analysis mayn't exist).