RogerS comments on The difference between Determinism & Pre-determination - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 28 July 2013 11:47:50AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, that's it. In case of quantum event, the probability (or indexical uncertainty) is in the territory; but in both quantum and non-quantum events, there is a probability in the map, just for different reasons.

In both cases we can use Many Worlds as a tool to visualize what those probabilities in the map mean. But in the case of non-quantum events we need to remember that there can be a better map with different probabilities.

Comment author: RogerS 28 July 2013 10:19:36PM *  0 points [-]

Great. Incidentally, that seems a much more intelligible use of "territory" and "map" than in the Sequence claim that a Boeing 747 belongs to the map and its constituent quarks to the territory.