Sunday, November 25, 2012

The morality of alternate universes.


Is there any point in being good if you are bad in an alternate universe? If each possible outcome branches’ out into a new alternate universe what is the point of trying? The answer may be that there is more than just one of each alternate universe.

If each change creates a new universe, it is unlikely that any one change will be local. The universe is so large that it will take many copies before the local area is involved in any change. Therefore you do not have just one good and one bad outcome from every choice. What matters are how many times the better branch is chosen out of a very large number of trials. You may be 99.99999% correct on any outcome branch, 0.11111%, or anywhere in between.

Perhaps there is one top-domain-average-universe in which every possible outcome is a field of unrealized probabilities. This is the unshaped clay that requires conscience to bring order out of chaos.

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