On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
*> a 'branch' encompasses the whole world, so if you want more than one > person on each branch, you have the entire population of the world on each > branch.* *Yes.* * > Unfortunately, the same population can be found on every branch, * *Yes, but I don't see why you say that is "unfortunate". * *>so that does not give you the necessary partitioning according to branch > weight.* *One of you sees a live cat in the box and another of you sees a dead cat in the box and each observation causes the world and everybody in it to split; however unless those other people have interacted with you they will not have changed. And two conscious brains that are identical is indistinguishable from one both subjectively and objectively. And if there's no subjective difference and there's no objective difference then there is just no difference. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 4ej > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1hNO7bAhOAW0spA%3DqtoVkPJ89Yz3Pz6oTwEe58f%2Bsv1w%40mail.gmail.com.

