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This Month’s Challenge: August 2006

The Most of All Possible Worlds

This challenge is more advanced than some we have presented.

The challenge is to find a game that has the widest possible set of potential outcomes. Ideally, you should have three or more choices for the final move, and all three moves collapse an entanglement. One choice might result in a win for X no matter which way the entanglement collapses. Another choice, O wins either way. A third choice, it is a cat's game either way.

At first, this appears no different from any other game where the outcome is undecided until the last move. However, note that we are not causing outcomes of the game, but rather are selecting histories of the game. We keep several very different games “in play” for an extended period of time. We are, if you will, keeping our options open as long as possible. We choose, as late as possible, the history that we want in the universe we live in. We cannot change the past, but we can select a past from among the possibilities that remain open.


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