Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Johnathan Corgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > In the multiverse, only other people

A New Kind of Science Conference

2005-12-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
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Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:18:16PM -0800, George Levy wrote: > > The only way to talk meaningfully about measure is when you can compare > two situations from a third person point of view: for example, if you > witness someone die from a freak event you could conclude that he > continued living

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread George Levy
Jesse Mazer wrote: Also, I'm still confused about your original argument: "Since you agree that the number of histories is on a continuum, you must accept that no matter how large or small a segment of the continuum is considered, the number of histories is the same. Hence measure is the sam

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 13-déc.-05, à 18:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : In this context I'm talking about your comp multiverse. Yes, our common sense experience sees history as one way. But this is the problem. Your requirement for LASE is that the accessibility relation is symmetrical. I don't require

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > In the multiverse, only other people end up in dead ends. Kind of makes you wonder what Tookie is doing right now. To us, he died as a result of lethal injection. What sort of successor observer-moments can follow a thing like that? Better question--what is the mo

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, the only explanation that I see fit in this context is an anthropic like argument. To have this discussion about why we haven't seen/experienced weird things up till now is that we must be conscious observer that haven't seen/experienced weird things up till now ;) And only our next exte

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Jesse, > unless you are willing to say that white rabbit universes have a > lower absolute measure than stable-laws-of-nature universes, you have no > justification for expecting that you are unlikely to experience such events > in your future. > > Jesse You have no justification, but in (ever