On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:15 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> Think of it like this: take a randomly shuffled deck of cards and hand > one card from the deck to each of 52 people. The probability that one of > the people will get the 3-of-Spades is one. * If Many Worlds is correct then the probability that somebody named Bruce Kellett who has memories and a personality identical with the person that wrote the email this is a response to will get a 3 of spades is 1, and the probability that somebody named Bruce Kellett who has memories and a personality identical with the person that wrote the email this is a response to will NOT get a 3 of spades is also 1 because in Many Worlds everything that can happen, that doesn't violate the laws of physics, will happen. *> The probability that 'You' will get the 3-of-Spades in a fair shuffle is > 1/52. * If Many Worlds is correct then the above statement is OK if looked at from a everyday strictly close up local perspective, but from a global viewpoint it would be neither true nor false, it would be gibberish because the personal pronoun is gibberish. *> The difference is that you have identified yourself in advance. * John Clark identifies "you" as anyone who has the memories and personality of Bruce Kellett; there are an astronomical number of John Clark's, maybe even an infinite number, but so far none of them have ever observed more than one chunk of matter that has those characteristics. But there is no reason in principle why that state of affairs couldn't change. > *The dualist assumption is equivalent.* That question would be better dealt with on a list about the martial arts not this one. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0PnnZcKRUsqmo%3Dc6%2BRouEZYxwasF5qFWh-h2ka6fFesA%40mail.gmail.com.
