“even”? The evidence I mentioned would be much more impressive than a mere miracle. And the Qu’ran is quite clearly indicative of the Islamic version of God.
And you may also be an alien teenager pulling a prank, but I’m nonetheless convinced you’re human.
Demanding an infinite amount of proof before you’re convinced of anything isn’t actually rationality. Nobody’s talking about 100% certainty here.
Your point is that you’re forgetting about priors. This should also be Multiheaded’s point, however poorly expressed.
Our prior for “alien pranksters” is not high—the question is just how low it is compared to alternate explanations. Any reasonable priors assign vastly more probability that Multiheaded is human than… well, anything else, but even if we rejected that it would take a while before we got to aliens. The question of whether aliens or the supernatural is to be assigned higher probability when faced with something as striking as apparent manipulation of the physical constants underlying this universe is a much harder question.
“even”? The evidence I mentioned would be much more impressive than a mere miracle. And the Qu’ran is quite clearly indicative of the Islamic version of God.
And you may also be an alien teenager pulling a prank, but I’m nonetheless convinced you’re human.
Demanding an infinite amount of proof before you’re convinced of anything isn’t actually rationality. Nobody’s talking about 100% certainty here.
That’s because I’m interacting with you in an entirely ordinary human way and not displaying any “miracles” or such.
I think we must be having different discussions, because I don’t understand what your point is, and you don’t seem to understand my point either.
Your point is that you’re forgetting about priors. This should also be Multiheaded’s point, however poorly expressed.
Our prior for “alien pranksters” is not high—the question is just how low it is compared to alternate explanations. Any reasonable priors assign vastly more probability that Multiheaded is human than… well, anything else, but even if we rejected that it would take a while before we got to aliens. The question of whether aliens or the supernatural is to be assigned higher probability when faced with something as striking as apparent manipulation of the physical constants underlying this universe is a much harder question.