The question is “do you have the right to torture yourself” for example. That sounds weird, but that is what some machines and humans will defend, as a universal right. It makes sense in a world where you can duplicate yourself.
It is a sort of property of science (and religion “well understood”), and why it frightens many people, it give more right. That is deeply ingrained already in the very notion of Turing universality, whose prize is an unavoidable threat on security. The universal machine can preserve universality only be “welcoming insecurity” (cf Alan Watts: the Wisdom of Insecurity). Science/religion gives right and power, but that is also why the tyran want them for themselves, and appropriating the religion is the good common trick. Unfortunately that leads to pseudo-science, pseudo-religion and the suffering which go with this. Bruno > On 25 Sep 2019, at 08:16, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Many Worlds leads Sean Carroll to speculate about the morality of duplicated > selves when they bach off into other worlds. > > Sean Carroll > @seanmcarroll > https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1176617631408775168 > > Congressional votes do not *cause* the wave function to branch, but unlikely > quantum events can bring into existence branches where classically unlikely > outcomes have occurred. A nucleus might decay in the right Representative's > brain at just the right time, etc. > > He asks: > > "If You Existed in Multiple Universes, How Would You Act In This One?" > > > https://lithub.com/if-you-existed-in-multiple-universes-how-would-you-act-in-this-one/ > (From Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime > by Sean Carroll) > > > But he gives away the game here: > > "To each individual on some branch of the wave function, life goes on just as > if they lived in a single world with truly stochastic quantum events." > > Maybe there's a Sean Carroll branch that loves stochasticity. > > Many Worlds (a religion, or quasi-religion, but not science) is fundamentally > an anti-probabilities superstition. And anti-materialist as well. Those who > think we are pure information - platotonist bits - have no problem with the > idea of multiple copies of things here and now being made, because there is > no new material needed. > > (The religious aspect of Many Worlds has been made apparent with the > promotion - Carroll's own tweets, for example - of the book.) > > @philipthrift > > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b548d5c0-d746-42c6-a960-60f419ae771e%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b548d5c0-d746-42c6-a960-60f419ae771e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/551B1040-DB1A-4392-A56B-A8924BA5A4CE%40ulb.ac.be.
