On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:27 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> How do you get on if you start with an infinite length of rope?* >> >> >> >> The length of the rope is irrelevant because a rope of any length >> that is greater than zero, up to and including an infinite length, has the >> same infinite number of points; and the analogue of Everettian worlds are >> points in my analogy. >> > > *> OK. How do you cut your infinite piece of rope in half? Or in the >> ratio of 3:1?* > > I would've thought that was obvious. *IF* the number of very similar but slightly different worlds produce the nearly identical subjective experience of seeing an electron go to the left is three times larger than the number of very similar but slightly different worlds that produce nearly identical subjective experiences of seeing an electron go to the right, *THEN* the probability of you seeing the electron go to the left is three times larger than seeing it go to the right. This can be done because although the number of ways your brain can be rearranged so that it produces different subjective states and yet you remain being you is certainly astronomically huge it is finite not infinite; although the total number of worlds, including worlds you don't exist in at all, could be infinite. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> uyo lpc -- 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/CAJPayv0JhRTKSOoAj_45%3DqDGnBHS-4Op6Na_4AVrmajh70uung%40mail.gmail.com.
