>>13609996>This doesn't answer my question.It does resolve what you thought is a contradiction. Your question was
>If all sequences are impossible, how do you get a sequence when you flip 100 coins?The answer to this is that "all sequences" is not constant in time. New sequences are created every day, just like works of literature are created every day that didn't exist before.
If X is a sequence, it's (all else being equal) possible that you have gotten X, but it's impossible to ever get X in the future.
>>All sequences that existed before you flipped were impossible to get.>Proof?By time symmetry. All sequences are impossible to get in the future. The same must have held in the past, since there's no metaphysical reason why one moment of the past would satisfy such a property but other one would not.
>That doesn't answer my question.Another way to view it is that this is simply what "every sequence X has a property X" means. It simply means that whatever sequence X you give me, it has a property X. This, as opposed to the notion that there's some magical inaccessible platonic realm where all the sequences rely, and there's an extremely powerful being which examines all of them one by one and determines that all of them have a property X.
>>Follows from the fact that all sequences are impossible to get.>Proof?There's no formal mathematical proof since it's not a formal mathematical proposition, but rather an empirical one. The best way to convince yourself of this is to actually try it yourself. Pick a sequence and try to get it by flipping coins. You will quickly realize that it's impossible. And there's no reason why that particular sequence is special. Therefore it must be impossible for all sequences.
>>Conceded what?>Your point.Except that I didn't.
