Rereading the comments on this thread, the problem is more subtle than I had thought—and I had better retract the above comment. I am inclined towards the idea that copying doesn’t really alter the pattern—but that kind of anthropic reasoning seems challenging to properly formalise under the given circumstances.
Rereading the comments on this thread, the problem is more subtle than I had thought—and I had better retract the above comment. I am inclined towards the idea that copying doesn’t really alter the pattern—but that kind of anthropic reasoning seems challenging to properly formalise under the given circumstances.