Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:30:05 +1000

On 15/04/2008, Michael Rosefield <rosyatrandom.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> No, it just means no-one's put enough stress on the 2nd Law yet :)
>
> Besides, it's not so much a law as a guideline. Well, a strong statistical
> tendency....

As Michael pointed out, the 2nd law is a statistical law, which says
that a decrease in entropy is unlikely, not impossible.. QTI predicts
that you will survive the most probable way possible. This means it is
unlikely that you will find yourself in a world where you choose to
attempt quantum suicide experiments in the first place, but if you do
the least improbable way of surviving is very improbable in absolute
terms, but not impossible.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Mon Apr 14 2008 - 21:30:21 PDT