On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:42:48AM -0000, Jason wrote:
> I agree that regardless of the creation or destruction of other
> copies, there is no reason for there ever to be any effect on first
> person experience, that means no funny feelings, no loss of
> consciousness, etc.
>
> RSSA Proponents:
> Many-worlds implies there are always branched histories where an
> observer survives to experience another observer-moment.
>
> ASSA Proponents:
> Observer-moments that find themselves as extremely and abnormally long-
> lived observers should be exceedingly rare.
>
> I fail to see how the above descriptions are mutually exclusive. I
These are not characterisation of the ASSA and RSSA. The one you label
RSSA is known as the "No cul-de-sac assumption". The one you label as ASSA
is a consequence of the ASSA, and some relatively minimal assumptions
on measure.
> The reason I started this thread was to discuss the possibility that
> Many-Worlds is a property of this universe for purely ASSA reasons, I
> see no reason for it to exist for any anthropic reasons, but due to
> the exponential growth in observer moments defined by many-world
> universes, it makes great sense.
>
> Jason
>
Occams razor would favour Multiverses for Anthropic Reasons.
I never really understood your point about the ASSA, as the relevant
*SSA for understanding what world we live in is the original SSA
(birth moment sampling) which both the ASSA and the RSSA satisfy.
Cheers
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