2014-02-14 19:29 GMT+01:00 John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> > > In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who "I" or "you" >>> is because however many copies of "I" or "you" there may or may not be they >>> will never meet. >>> >> >> > That changes absolutely nothing... just put the reconstruction of the W >> guy 200 years later than the M guy, they will never meet... >> > > If that happened then it's true the W guy could not interact with the M > guy, but the M guy could still interact with the W guy; just as you can > make no changes in Plato but Plato can make changes in you, and it happens > every time you pick up one of Plato's books. But I can have absolutely no > effect on the John Clark in one of Everett's Many Worlds nor can that other > fellow have any effect on me; so in Everett pronouns cause no trouble and > the question "which one is you?" >
But that's not the question both the W *and* the M guy are the H guy... the question bear on probability of expectation for the H guy when he press the button... MWI scenario: You stand in a white room with two doors, one on the left, one on the right, there is a column with a button in the middle of the room, when you press it, the spin of an electron is measured, if it is up the left door open, if it is down the right door open... probability for you to see the left door opening after having pressed the button is 0.5. Duplication scenario: You stand in a white room with two doors, one on the left, one on the right, there is a column with a button in the middle of the room, when you press it, you are duplicated, one version of you is reconstructed in a totally similar room where the left door open, one version of you is reconstructed in a totally similar room where the right door open (the original is destroyed), suppose for the sake of the argument, that the copying/annihilation process is instantaneous and not detectable/feelable by the reconstructed guys. Probability for you to see the left door opening after having pressed the button is 0.5 like in MWI *assuming comp and that the copy are still you which is trivially true if computationalism is true. No difference between MWI and comp duplication here... please state where you disagree. Quentin > never comes up, but it certainly does with Bruno's stuff. > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
