If you want to know why

enfieldacademy
Thu, 26 May 2011 00:22:05 +0000

Maybe, yeah. It turns out that’s not the case though, it turns out humans survived well into the AD’s. Just like it could turn out that people might still be procreating 8000 years from now. I know what one can conclude about the future is not definite, but I wonder how much one can conclude, or with what certainty one can say things about it

But one point to make is that back then the estimate would have bee much less accurate: before 2000bc only a few billion humans (if that) had been conscious; now around 100 billion have been conscious. Thus, the end is in some sense nearer, and so the prediction of the end more accurate. That is to say, what I can conclude from being conscious when and where I am conscious is greater now than it was then.

I have to think more about this, though. I think there’s more than can be said, or things that can be said that are more precise.