2009/5/10 ZeroSum <ing...@usa.net>: > David Lewis' statement cuts to the core of the nature of > consciousness. If each conscious observer on planet Earth (and let's > assume the laws of physics don't limit consciousness to humans but > includes any sentient animal life form) exists in "Many Worlds" (see > Wiki topic on physicist "Hugh Everett III" at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett) > then Houston, we've got a problem. > > The human population alone is over 6 billion conscious observers. Each > observer can cause branching into an unfathomably huge number of > parallel universes (or perhaps an infinite number). Everyone else, in > addition to an incomprehensibly large number of people only born in > some parallel universes, branches into their own parallel universes, > extrapolating logically from the "Many Worlds" theory. Each one of us > is essentially forced to consciously exist in parallel universes that > continue coming into existence as the result of the actions of every > other conscious observer on this planet. Include conscious non-human > observers (animal and who knows what else) and Houston, we've got a > really big problem... or is it really a problem? > > Instead of using this line of thinking to debunk the "Many Worlds" > interpretation, I think this isn't such a big problem as it initially > appears. > > For one thing, consider sleep walking.
I don't really understand what the problem is. That there are many world in the MWI is already a given. Consciousness and quantum immortality experiments don't create any more worlds than there otherwise would be. In the multiverse as a whole, only a very small number of worlds contain versions of you who survived a direct nuclear blast. In almost all the worlds, you have died. -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
