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Comment author: KatjaGrace 01 July 2012 11:21:00PM 0 points [-]

If your existence depends on X, there are two possibilities: you observe X, you observe nothing

If your existence doesn't depend on X but you have some other way of observing whether X is true, the possibilities are: you observe X, you observe not X.

Do you think that observing X provides different information about something else in these two cases?