The mind-bending thing about it is thus: there are an infinite multitude of “you” throughout the multiverse expressing every “you” that could, or even could not, be. However, there are infinitely more realities with no “you” at all. The set of infinities containing an expression of “you” is necessarily smaller than the set of infinities that do not contain an expression of “you” simply owing to the very narrow nature of eventualities required to express “you” into existence. In point of fact, that set if infinitesimal labeled “you” is infinitesimal in comparison to the set labeled “not you”, and yet still uncountable in its infinity.
Where it gets strange is that there are actually an equal number of multiverse that have a version of you as there are that do not contain a version of you.
For the sake of simple math, let’s assume that there are an infinite number of multiverses and that the amount of those which contain a version of you is 1/10th.
So let’s take the amount of multiverses and divide them by ten. What do we get? Infinity.
It’s like trying to say there are fewer rational numbers between 1 and 2 than there are between 2 and 10. The number is always infinite.
No, there are some infinities bigger than other infinities. I know it sounds dumb, but this has been mathematically demonstrated. All infinities aren’t the same size, basically.
The set of rational numbers is larger than the set of integer numbers, even though they are both infinite.
What the person you replied is trying to say is that the intinite amount of universes that exist is infinitely larger that the infinite amount of universes in which you exist.
Personally, I think we can’t mathematically understand if the multiverse is a countable or uncountable infinite… Maybe we can? I don’t know.
The mind-bending thing about it is thus: there are an infinite multitude of “you” throughout the multiverse expressing every “you” that could, or even could not, be. However, there are infinitely more realities with no “you” at all. The set of infinities containing an expression of “you” is necessarily smaller than the set of infinities that do not contain an expression of “you” simply owing to the very narrow nature of eventualities required to express “you” into existence. In point of fact, that set if infinitesimal labeled “you” is infinitesimal in comparison to the set labeled “not you”, and yet still uncountable in its infinity.
Don’t worry, in one of those realities, odds are one of the me’s developed a multiversal bomb that destroyed all the realities other than ours.
Where it gets strange is that there are actually an equal number of multiverse that have a version of you as there are that do not contain a version of you.
For the sake of simple math, let’s assume that there are an infinite number of multiverses and that the amount of those which contain a version of you is 1/10th.
So let’s take the amount of multiverses and divide them by ten. What do we get? Infinity.
It’s like trying to say there are fewer rational numbers between 1 and 2 than there are between 2 and 10. The number is always infinite.
No, there are some infinities bigger than other infinities. I know it sounds dumb, but this has been mathematically demonstrated. All infinities aren’t the same size, basically.
The set of rational numbers is larger than the set of integer numbers, even though they are both infinite.
What the person you replied is trying to say is that the intinite amount of universes that exist is infinitely larger that the infinite amount of universes in which you exist.
Personally, I think we can’t mathematically understand if the multiverse is a countable or uncountable infinite… Maybe we can? I don’t know.
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/12823/is-the-number-of-universes-finite-countably-infinite-or-uncountably-infinite-a