Re: AB continuity

From: Quentin Anciaux <allcolor.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:54:24 +0100

2009/2/11 Jack Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>

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> --- On Wed, 2/11/09, Quentin Anciaux <allcolor.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> > 2009/2/11 Jack Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
> > > And if your measure were to drop off dramatically overnight, it is
> equivalent to saying that many _more people_ woke up in your bed today as
> compared to the number of people who will wake up in your bed tommorrow.
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> > > Which is equivalent to saying that, for all practical purposes, you
> will probably die overnight. And that is the point.
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> > I don't think so, the point is that there is still someone who will wake
> up in the bed tomorrow... as long as the measure is not null this is true,
> and that's what count for the argument to be valid.
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> There are some people who will, but relatively few. That is what counts
> for QS to be invalid.


Well no.. because if the measure is never null there always exists a
successor moment however small is measure is, it exists and that's all what
is needed. (from a first person perspective, and that's what the argument is
about)


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> > So what you are saying is that at some point the measure fall to be
> strictly null... and that needs an argument from your part.
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> No, I never suggested it is zero. It doesn't have to be.
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So there exists a successor.


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> > Also you did not answer the question about the realness feeling of
> observer B... he has twice less measure according to you, does it feel less
> alive/real/conscious ?
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> I answered that previously. Measure affects the commonness of an
> observation, not what it feels like.
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>From a 1st perspective commonness is useless in the argument. The important
is what it feels like for the experimenter.

Regards,
Quentin


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