My question for you is: in the world we live in, the full causal history of any real event contains almost the whole history of Earth from the time of the event backwards, because the Earth is so small relative to the speed of light, and everything that could have interacted with the event is part of the history of that event. So in practice, won’t all counterfactable events need to be a more-or-less a full specification of the whole state of the world at a certain point in time?
I would argue that this is not in fact the case.
Our world is highly modular, much less entangled than other possible worlds [possibly because of anthropic reasons].
The way I think about it: in practice as you zoom in on a false counterfactual you will need to pay more and more bits for conflicting ‘coincidences’.
I would argue that this is not in fact the case.
Our world is highly modular, much less entangled than other possible worlds [possibly because of anthropic reasons].
The way I think about it: in practice as you zoom in on a false counterfactual you will need to pay more and more bits for conflicting ‘coincidences’.