> -----Original Message----- > From: Jacques Mallah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >From: Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I suspect you are trying to find ways of making QTI compatible with > >Jacques ASSA based argument, when it is clear his argument fails > >completely. Not that the argument is unimportant, as the reasons for > >the failure are also interesting. > > What the hell are you babbling about?
I don't know whether he's thinking about my objections to the SSA argument, but mine certainly *appear* to undermine it (at least I haven't yet heard a good reason why they don't). Briefly, (1) the SSA argument neglects the fact that even with an infinitely long worldline, everyone must pass through every age from 0 upwards, which is precisely what we observe. It also (2) ignores a selection effect, namely that only in a thermodynamically low number of universes can a person who is not "QTI-old" expect to communicate with someone who *is* (and hence 99.999999999999...% of discussion groups will necessarily be composed of "QTI-young" people). The SSA argument also (3) gives the strong impression (though this could *perhaps* be argued away) that it relies on us treating our worldlines as though we've just been "dropped" into them at some random point, like Billy Pilgrim; which is, of course, not what happens in reality. Maybe there are some more technical objections to the SSA argument, but these are the simplest and most obvious. Charles
