Eugine_Nier comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 October 2012 01:28:12PM *  0 points [-]

If you can't imagine an universe that's not made out of causes and effects than talking about such an universe is meaningless.

To be able to assign a probability zero to the statement that the universe is not made out of causes and effects you have to be able to imagine a universe that's not made out of causes and effects.

Meaningless statements can't be true or false. Speaking about their probability makes no sense.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 October 2012 09:07:12PM *  3 points [-]

If you can't imagine an universe that's not made out of causes and effects than talking about such an universe is meaningless.

Before Einstein nobody could imagine without universal time either.

In other words, if you can't imagine a universe with property X, that's a fact about you not about the universe.