Hi Jacques,
AS I re-read your paper, I had a thought: Does not the mutual
interfearence between the "copies" hace something to do with a QM systems
ability to compute exponensially more than a classical system? If so, then
reducing the number or density of copies would lead to an attenuation in the
computational power of the associated system. That is clearly not a good
thing!
It seems to me that what we experience as individuals is the "best of
all possible worlds" and anything that reduces the ability of our quantum
nature to span the spectrum of possibilities is anathema to our existence in
such a world.
Onward!
Stephen
PS: I still would like to understand how the notion of measure or density is
considered. Could you link a recent paper or article on the subject?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Mallah" <jackmal...@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:16 PM
Subject: measure again '10
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--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
This paper by Jacques Mallah outlines the position:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0187.
A point of disagreement when we discussed this paper on the list about a
year ago is that Jacques thinks it would be a bad thing if there were many
copies of a person in lockstep and some of the copies were destroyed,
Indeed, decreasing the amount of consciousness (i.e. killing people) would
be bad. The fact that a few other, similar 'brothers' would still survive
matters little. Killing one man is not OK just because he has a brother.
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