bahman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:11 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:07 pm
bahman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:02 pm
(a) could be the case but it is not the case, I mean the reality as it is started. It is better to replace (b) with the chance for having life in a solar system size is p. (c) is not necessary then as it is discussed for (a). (d) I agree.
Okay, so if you'd say that (a) isn't a necessary assumption for what you'd written, can you explain how what you'd written would be the case without the assumption of (a)?
The beginning was not random but rather a very uniform form of a substance. If I understand your question correctly.
The question is about this thought experiment that you proposed:
"If you have one box, as big as the solar system, filled with atoms then the chance of having life is P which P is the chance that to have a proper side of a dice. Now suppose you have two boxes. The probability to have life in each box is P. The question is what is the chance for having the life in two boxes. Obviously the chance increases since you are allowed to roll the dice twice, one for each box."
So that we're literally talking about boxes that we're imagining, etc.
My claim was that among other assumptions, that's only on the assumption that "(a) the arrangements in the boxes are dynamically random (that is, they regularly enter different arrangements of all possible combinations)."
You said that your thought experiment, as presented, doesn't require that assumption.
So I'm asking you to explain how your thought experiment could work without assumption (a). The answer to this wouldn't be anything about the actual universe. We're talking about your thought experiment.