200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse (opens in new tab)

The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing a set of issues naturally arising at the intersection of philosophy and physics: how to think about probabilities and expectations in a multiverse. Here I am more about explaining the issues than offering correct answers, although I try to do a bit of that as well. Support Mindscape on Patreon. References: Guth, "Inflation and Eternal Inflation" Weinberg, "Living In th...