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To: phantomworker

and, the funny thing: any *alternative* outcome of all those factors has *precisely* the same probability as the one outcome set which actually comes to pass.

I believe this is analogous to the so-called "thermodynamic miracle". We don't notice them, because *everything* qualifies as such.


108 posted on 03/10/2006 8:10:26 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Yes! and if random, the outcomes are all equally likely.


111 posted on 03/10/2006 8:29:30 AM PST by phantomworker (The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. - Thomas Koenig)
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