To me the correspondence seems smaller, and therefore the coincidence less unlikely.
Many-world hypothesis assumes parallel worlds that obey exactly the same laws of physics. Anything can happen with astronomically tiny probability, but the vast majority of parallel worlds is just as boring as our world. The counterfactuals we imagine are not limited by the laws of physics.
Construction of counterfactuals is useful for reasoning with uncertainty. Quantum physics is a source of uncertainty, but there are also enough macroscopic sources of uncertainty (limited brain size, second law of thermodynamics). If an intelligent life evolved in a deterministic universe, I imagine it would also find counterfactual reasoning useful.
To me the correspondence seems smaller, and therefore the coincidence less unlikely.
Many-world hypothesis assumes parallel worlds that obey exactly the same laws of physics. Anything can happen with astronomically tiny probability, but the vast majority of parallel worlds is just as boring as our world. The counterfactuals we imagine are not limited by the laws of physics.
Construction of counterfactuals is useful for reasoning with uncertainty. Quantum physics is a source of uncertainty, but there are also enough macroscopic sources of uncertainty (limited brain size, second law of thermodynamics). If an intelligent life evolved in a deterministic universe, I imagine it would also find counterfactual reasoning useful.
Yeah, that’s a reasonable position to take.