Re: Fwd: COUNTERFACTUALS

From: Jacques M Mallah <jqm1584.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:29:08 -0400

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> 3) Or we just go ahead and implement MW technology such as Quantum computers,
> Quantum encryption, Quantum electronics, etc... I believe that with time
> we'll become so familiar with the MW that we will just accept it as
> completely natural.

        Those are QM techs, not "MW techs". I do however think that if
more people become familiar with QM they will be more likely to accept the
MWI.

> Arguments about survival after QS will appear to be
> pointless, just like now, arguments about the existence of atoms appear
> pointless even if no one has seen an atom with his naked eyes.

        Here's your logical argument:
        Given A, B will seem more likely.
        Therefore everyone will believe C.
        It seems to me that you are missing a step there.
        Especially since NOT C is obviously true regardless of B.
        Arguments about QS will be pointless because only a few crackpots
will believe in it even if everyone believes the MWI.

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              Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
       Graduate Student / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
"I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
            My URL: http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/
Received on Tue Jun 29 1999 - 11:31:38 PDT

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