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To: tortoise

It's even deeper than that. No uniform probablity distribution exists for the whole line (or plane, etc.). Nor does a uniform distribution exist on the integers. Otherwise, if challenged to "pick a number" one would usually pick a number that takes longer than the age of the universe to write down.


1,506 posted on 02/02/2005 11:40:33 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Zeno's paradox redux -- the number could not be picked. It would fall on some impossible to even suggest infinitesmal.

Still, tortoise's suggestion that the chance of this point in meta-space we are all part of right now being equivalent to any other point in meta-space infers that we are in a such a meta-space. That is the rub. His and your apriori of a belief system. Are we? Can't prove it.

Comes back to the fifty coins on the table. All heads after a toss -- what's on their other face?

What is most logical to say?

1,511 posted on 02/02/2005 11:48:56 AM PST by bvw
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