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But what if the target was there before? Then you have to explain how the arrow hit it so perfectly. There is a difference.
The difference is, is there anything special about the target's placement?
One can argue that alternative universes where soups of particles didn't give rise to life are all uninteresting.
You can of course say that life is needed to make the judgment for what is interesting.
But are you sure there is no sense in which the target can be said to have been painted before the arrow was fired? It all rests on that.
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But what if the target was there before? Then you have to explain how the arrow hit it so perfectly. There is a difference.
The difference is, is there anything special about the target's placement?
One can argue that alternative universes where soups of particles didn't give rise to life are all uninteresting.
You can of course say that life is needed to make the judgment for what is interesting.
But are you sure there is no sense in which the target can be said to have been painted before the arrow was fired? It all rests on that.