"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."
So you meant something like "counterfactually, it's more likely that Steve Jobs changed his mind about treatment than it is that he didn't get pancreatic cancer."
Yes, exactly.
I feel like phrasing this in terms of quantum mechanics ("the amplitude of outcomes where steve jobs changed his mind etc. etc.) actually makes it more difficult to support.
Yes, I feel like I've opened a can of worms in opening this line of questioning in my brain and now I'll have to think about it for a few hours.
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