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finding that something exists doesn't mean it has to affect us - it could be in an entirely different universe, inaccessible to us
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maybe some metaphysical answers are that way? you'd judge them by their pleasantness, lucidity, and usefulness as intuition pump
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is occam's razor still useful here? is terseness the most desirable quality here? could it be ok to just make shit up?
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another way to put it: mathematical possibility of something (existence) versus its causal connection to us (relevance)
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although, if we can imagine something (specifically, find a construction), we also establish a causal connection, however tenuous
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