On 2/21/2025 4:04 AM, John Clark wrote:
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.
*
Those "other people" need only have interacted with a particle that has
interacted with a particle that has interacted with the Geiger counter
that triggered the gas. That's why the usual theory is that the split
of the two worlds propagates roughly at the speed of light (since those
particles could be photons). You're not supposing that only conscious
differences implement splits, are you?
Brent
*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
4ej
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