On 1 October 2013 09:40, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personal identity has nothing to do with prediction, and there is a 100% > probability the the Washington man and the Moscow man remember being the > Helsinki man, and that is all you need to know to say that the Helsinki man > had more than one future. > > Nicely and succinctly put. In comp the "duplicated man" indeed has more than one future.
Bruno is distinguishing between our "overview" and the man's personal point of view, and ISTM that this is analogous to a scientist performing a schrodinger's cat type experiment. The scientist naturally assigns a 50% chance to each outcome, even though he knows that he's duplicated by worlds splitting, and that in reality "he will see both" (i.e. he has more than one future). Similarly the guy in Helsinki assigns a 50% chance to "himself" arriving in Washington, and ditto for Moscow. But from our "third person" perspective, he arrives in both places. I can't see that this is problematic, if we accept the MWI then the comp thought experiment is very similar. But there seems to be a lot of trouble with the comp version for some reason. -- 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.
