On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:12:28AM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > > Hi Russell > I have considered also the possibility that the NCDSC may not > necessarilly operate simultaneously - this would imply temporary 3rd > person culde sacs! Just as in Bruno's teleportation experiment, there > is no reason why the reconstitution of the individual cannot be > delayed. From the ist person pov, everything works the same and > continuity is experienced. I'm unsure how this fits in with MWI > though. Such delays would not be easily accounted for in the state > vector's superposition. Hence if someone reaches a NCDS event and > somehow later on they find a consistent extension in a simulation of > some sort, then what happens to the temporary branch cul de sac in > terms of a quantum mechanical explanation? > > Nick Prince >
It doesn't really make sense to say 3rd person cul-de-sacs. These would be just regular deaths, as we see all around us, all the time. When you say temporary cul-de-sacs, do you mean after which there is some kind of amnesia, and then you follow a non cul-de-sac history? If these really existed, then I would say the NCDS conjecture is refuted, and QTI, stricto-sensu, is false. But, its going to be hard to come up with such a scenario. The best I could do was after decapitation, there are reports of some people indicating they're still conscious seconds later. But even these scenarios are not immune to the waking up after a dream explanation. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
