The branching is occurring at every moment, so if even one set of said parents got it on, there would be "umpteen trillons(TM)" of copies of said individual. It has nothing to do really with the parents at all. Once you exist, there's umpteen trillions of copies that stem from the state of the individual at each moment in time.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:59 AM, m.a. <marty...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" > > > > > On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." <marty...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > I may have this all wrong, but it seems to me that for there to be > umpteen trillion copies of a person there had to be umpteen trillion (UT) > copies of his parents. And only a relatively small sub-group of those met > and cohabited at the exact moment of his/her conception. But the same must > have been true for their parents and their parents' parents and so forth > back to the primoridal slime. And this staggering foliation of universes > only covers one specific zygote of two specific gametes. What of all the > other UT^UT combinations leading to the creation of other individuals just > on this family tree? And what of all the other combinations and histories of > every human, animal, insect and bacterium on this planet? Does it really > make sense to assume numbers of universes so far beyond our ability to > conceive of? marty a. > > > You may as well claim that an infinite single universe should not exist > because it boggles the human mind. > > Stathis Papaioannou > > I don't know, Stathis. Somehow it seems easier for me to conceive of ONE > infinite universe than to conceive of umpteen trillion trillion > trillion^umpteen trillion trillion trillion^umpteen...universes. My "mind" > is obviously more limited than yours. m.a. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@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.
