Re: Amoeba croaks -

From: SLP <SLP.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:04:29 -0600

Hal Finney wrote:
> Even though we know that all things will happen, by making
> good decisions we increase the fraction which have good outcomes, thereby
> increasing the measure of those instances of ourselves which are having
> favorable experiences.

I disagree. Or at least, I'm puzzled.

The decisons you make are already "pre-programmed." All things "happen"
with "predetemined" measures and it is quite naive to think that you can
change those measures. As Jacqus Mallah has said repeatedly, your
decisons simply are the laws of physics in action.

Everythng that is, was, or will be is contained in the universal wave
function. No one can change that. Even the notion of things
"happening" in time, in a sense, is a illusion. The Wheeler-DeWitt
equation is timeless. What is, is. Period.


Sincerely,

Steve Price, MD
Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 18:13:44 PST