On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> 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. * > *Yes, but most particles have not reacted with a geiger counter, and even if one had in most cases you personally would not be conscious of it having done so. * *> You're not supposing that only conscious differences implement splits, > are you?* *No. Any change to your body, no matter how small, will cause the universe to split. However you will not be consciously aware of all, or even most, of those changes. In other words, a change in the quantum state of one electron in your big toe will not change the way you process information at the instant the universe splits; although, because of classical chaos, it might cause a change in your information processing, and therefore your consciousness, sometime in the future.* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ty -- 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/CAJPayv1iyJ1%3DnqQtth2enH%2B%3D1_uP%2BHiDUr79hucQk%2By2WFNo4w%40mail.gmail.com.
