It may help to start with regular quantum mechanics/ Many Worlds. Because there, your scenario sounds like a world receiving amplitude from two different histories—actually many more, but let’s start with them—there’s the actually possible history in which the coin landed tails, and the magical one where it landed heads. Both contribute to the underlying result.
Timeless physics sounds like it takes this one step further. In this view, both pasts exist as disconnected points in a timeless space. Eliezer’s version (I think) has an implicit causal connection between the ‘present’ and the ‘tails’ past if we analyze them according to real physics, and another connection to ‘heads’ if we analyze them by magical physics.
It may help to start with regular quantum mechanics/ Many Worlds. Because there, your scenario sounds like a world receiving amplitude from two different histories—actually many more, but let’s start with them—there’s the actually possible history in which the coin landed tails, and the magical one where it landed heads. Both contribute to the underlying result.
Timeless physics sounds like it takes this one step further. In this view, both pasts exist as disconnected points in a timeless space. Eliezer’s version (I think) has an implicit causal connection between the ‘present’ and the ‘tails’ past if we analyze them according to real physics, and another connection to ‘heads’ if we analyze them by magical physics.