On 4/14/2015 6:22 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com
<mailto:stath...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Whenever somebody says X is an illusion the first question that
should be
asked is how would things be different if X were not an illusion; so
how
would things be different if persisting through time were not an
illusion?
> If being a unique entity persisting through time were not an illusion
then in the case of duplication experiments we could definitely say
that you would persist as one of the copies rather than the other.
If there were more than one Mr.You that persisted through time you would still persist
through time, but looking into the past there is indeed a unique linear sequence of
individuals culminating in the Mr. You of today. But there a difference between the past
and the future and if Many Worlds is correct then unlike the past there is nothing
linear and nothing unique about Mr.You's future.
Except the disciples of MWI insist that the SWE (without collapse) includes the totality
of physical evolution. Since the SWE is time reversible this implies that the past is
just as branching as the future.
Brent
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