Infinite probabilities
Alan Fuller arfuller@rocketmail.com
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 07:17:03 -0800 (PST) (00884380623, 19980109151703.14255.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com)
Fuller
Don't blame me, blame Einstien. It was his idea.
---Ricardo Aler Mur <aler@inf.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alan Fuller wrote:
>
> > I exist in a finite amount of time. Time itself,
or the full set of
> > time is infinite. Divide the finite time of my
life by infinity and
> > the result is zero.
> > The probability that I exist is zero.
>
> This is rather amusing. The lenght of time you
exist is not connected with
> the probability that you exist in any way!. Let's
suppose that time is
> finite. In that case the probability that a turtle
would exist would be
> greater than that of an ant, which is clearly
ridiculous. What you have
> just calculated is the probability that, examining
a randomly choosen
> time, you exist at that time. But that is not the
probability that you
> exist!.
>
> Ricardo.
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