Things Unfolding as They Did II

I didn’t mean to sound so oracular last post. Let me expiate by filling in a little. The claim is that things unfolding as they did from the big bang, including such things as an ordinary trip to the store as ordinarily described, had a probability either of 1 or something exquisitely close to 0. In light of quantum theory, it is almost certainly the latter.

The Probability of Things Unfolding as They Did

Measured from the early big bang, the probability that you would buy just those items you picked up on your last trip to the store could only be either 1 or a number distinguishable from 0 only by a quantity smaller than humankind has ever used or even contemplated.

For much more on this, including an argument for very nearly 0, seeConjectures & Arguments, Philosophy & Law: Things Unfolding as They Did II