On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:51:24PM +0000, chris peck wrote: > > Perhaps you don't, but it isn't important. I think it is generally accepted, > perhaps not on this list, that one would be banging at the walls of the > teleporter, screaming to be released, certain of impending death. That kind > of intuition. The kind it has been fruitful not to ignore in our evolutionary > past. ;) >
Ah - perhaps I misread your previous characterisation. I had assumed you meant that it took a minute or two for the copy to be reconstituted, while the original was annihilated immediately. I see Bruno read it that way too, as this is step 4 of the UDA. But perhaps now you're asking us to consider the situation where instead there is a delay in annihilation, such that the copy scheduled for annihilation knows that e has been cloned, and that e has not teleported. This is a sort of cul de sac experience, which has to be impossible to create if QTI is true. The existence of a universal dovetailer entails the lack of all cul de sac experiences (Comp immortality). Of course if I ever did find myself in a cul de sac in the teleporter room, I'd bang at the walls too! But then I would also know (rather briefly) that COMP is false. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
