Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-27 Thread Brent Meeker
ng-list@googlegroups.com <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." mailto:marty...@bellsouth.

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-27 Thread John Mikes
gt; - Original Message - >> *From:* Stathis Papaioannou >> *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com >> *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM >> *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" >> >> >> >> >> >&

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Gough
he state of the individual at each moment in time. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:59 AM, m.a. wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Stathis Papaioannou > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: Quantum

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-25 Thread John Mikes
I am afraid you start from the 2nd step: first you accept whatever 'we' (humans) think as an evidence in the system we can absorb and evaluate (explain) and then - *in the framework of that *we imagine our science. Indeed not much more than a belief system of today. Not too different from the so ca

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 May 2010, at 23:01, Brent Meeker wrote: On 5/23/2010 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Alex, hi Quentin, On 20 May 2010, at 15:19, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Hi, 2010/5/20 awak 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science books. I'm not a

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 24 May 2010 23:08, John Mikes wrote: > Stathis, > > you seemed bored: you jumped into assigning a bit more to my text than it > really contained: > "...saying that we can know nothing about it at all..." > what I did not say. I spoke about a 'hypothetical' functioning of the world > (read the '

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-24 Thread Brent Meeker
On 5/24/2010 6:08 AM, John Mikes wrote: Stathis, you seemed bored: you jumped into assigning a bit more to my text than it really contained: _/"...saying that we can know nothing about it at all..."/ _ what I did not say. I spoke about a 'hypothetical' functioning of the world (read the/ 'imag

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-24 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, you seemed bored: you jumped into assigning a bit more to my text than it really contained: *"...saying that we can know nothing about it at all..." * what I did not say. I spoke about a 'hypothetical' functioning of the world (read the* 'imagining"it")* and it refers to how we explain 'i

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 24 May 2010 01:12, John Mikes wrote: > Stathis, > I hate to go into a 'fault-finding' trip, but what gives you the idea that > "the universe works" in any way WE, stupid consequences THINK OF in any > fashion? > The universe (???) or anything we translate into universes in our limited > minds -

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-24 Thread awak
Thank you for the responses. Brent Meeker-2 wrote: > > On 5/23/2010 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Hi Alex, hi Quentin, >> >> On 20 May 2010, at 15:19, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 2010/5/20 awak mailto:mustata_a...@yahoo.com>> >>> >>> >>> 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a c

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread Brent Meeker
On 5/23/2010 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Alex, hi Quentin, On 20 May 2010, at 15:19, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Hi, 2010/5/20 awak mailto:mustata_a...@yahoo.com>> 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science books. I'm not a scienti

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" Hi, 2010/5/20 awak 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science books. I'm not a scientist, nor a native English spea

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Alex, hi Quentin, On 20 May 2010, at 15:19, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Hi, 2010/5/20 awak 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science books. I'm not a scientist, nor a native English speaker, so please excuse my possible inconsistencies in b

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2010/5/23 John Mikes > Stathis, > I hate to go into a 'fault-finding' trip, but what gives you the idea that > "the universe works" in any way WE, stupid consequences THINK OF in any > fashion? > The universe (???) or anything we translate into universes in our limited > minds - MAY work in its o

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, I hate to go into a 'fault-finding' trip, but what gives you the idea that "the universe works" in any way WE, stupid consequences THINK OF in any fashion? The universe (???) or anything we translate into universes in our limited minds - MAY work in its own unrestricted ways and we - with

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 23 May 2010 05:26, John Mikes wrote: > Stathis: > how about a wording version of your remark: > "you may as well claim that we should not make up an "infinite universe > story" that would boggle the human mind"? > I am not against the 'exist', because any idea does exist (at least in the > mind

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-22 Thread John Mikes
Stathis: how about a wording version of your remark: "you may as well claim that we should not make up an "infinite universe story" that would boggle the human mind"? I am not against the 'exist', because any idea does exist (at least in the mind of the initiator). John M On 5/20/10, Stathis Pap

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-21 Thread Brent Meeker
ilto:everything-list@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." mailto:marty...@bellsouth.net>> wrote: I may have t

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-21 Thread m.a.
- Original Message - From: Quentin Anciaux To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" 2010/5/21 m.a. - Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-21 Thread Nick Prince
2010/5/21 m.a. > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Stathis Papaioannou > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" > > > > Why in the f

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2010/5/21 m.a. > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Stathis Papaioannou > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" > > > > > On 20/05/201

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-21 Thread m.a.
- Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." wrote: I may have this all

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." wrote: I may have this all wrong, but it seems to me that for there to be umpteen trillion copies of a person there had to be umpteen trillion (UT) copies of his parents. And only a relatively small sub-group of those met and cohabited at the exact mome

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-20 Thread m.a.
ciaux To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" Hi, 2010/5/20 awak 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science b

Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, 2010/5/20 awak > > 1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for > Popular Science books. I'm not a scientist, nor a native English speaker, > so > please excuse my possible inconsistencies in both Scientific logic or > English grammar. Again, sorry if this quest

Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-20 Thread awak
1. Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I'm a civil engineer with an avid passion for Popular Science books. I'm not a scientist, nor a native English speaker, so please excuse my possible inconsistencies in both Scientific logic or English grammar. Again, sorry if this question has already been posed. 2.