> >
> > While we're on this topic, I'd like a little clarification on something.
> > All of this discussion is assuming that only worlds branching off of our
> > world are possible. But from a 3rd-person perspective, aren't they ALL
> > possible, but some just not possible for us (from a 1st-person perspective)?
> > Looking at it from a 3rd-person point of view, the decision not to commit
> > quantum suicide because you'd leave loved ones behind doesn't hold anymore.
> > Sure, you'd leave loved ones behind, but if you decided not to do it, there
> > would still be another world where you decided to do it, and left loved ones
> > behind. So it makes no difference either way.
> >
>
> You brought this up before. I didn't quite understand earlier, but now it
> seemsclearer in this context. If you have two logically incompatible worlds,
> you can't hold both to be true, from a 1st person perspective. From a 3rd person
> perspective, S and ~S are both true; everything would be true. So this
> perspective
> is not helpful for decisions (which are 1st person actions anyway).
>
> Fred
This is an intriguing thought - that the 3rd person perspective must
necessarily be inconsistent, an only 1st person perspectives are
consistent.
>
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