General Education Culture and Belief 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Agnosticism, Lettres Provinciales
21 Mar 2016
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Pascal: born in 1632, works on probability theory, projection theory, infinitesimal math, concept of the infinite (limits, derivative, etc. , lettres provinciales, pensees, died 1662, the wager. If you bet on heads and the coin shows up heads, you get a million dollars. If you bet on heads and the coin shows up tails, you have to pay a thousand dollars. If you bet on tails and the coin shoes up heads, you lose a thousand dollars. If you bet that god exists and god exists, you get infinite happiness. If you bet that god exists and god does not exist, you lose 10 units of pleasure. If you bet that god does not exist and god does exist, you get infinite misery. Imagine another god, jealous, who doesn"t like people who worship other gods. Jealous is a possible god, just like god.
