Jacques, if you are truly incapable of viewing this problem from the first
person perspective, then you are the first enlightened being I have met.
Congratulations.
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques M. Mallah [SMTP:jqm1584.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Saturday, 05 February, 2000 11:18 PM
> To: 'everything-list.domain.name.hidden'
> Subject: RE: normalization
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Higgo James wrote:
> > >From the bigger perspective, I don't believe QTI as I don't believe in
> time
> > or an objective relationship between thoughts. Both are necessary for
> QTI to
> > make sense.
> >
> > But for the purposes of our subjective, everyday world, I believe in
> QTI. I
> > simply do not understand why you don't (I really must be thick, or
> perhaps
> > it's the emperor's new clothes).
> >
> > Put yourself in the cat's shoebox. You can expect to be there at
> tea-time.
> > You can plan to go and catch mice. The fact that you will not be there
> in
> > 50% of 'subsequent' universes is quite irrelevant.
>
> What do you mean by "you can expect to be there"? That is
> misleading. The fact is that the effective probability for a Cat-like
> observation to be in the future (after the experiment) rather than before
> it is reduced. And the effective probability for an observation in the
> future to be Cat-like (as opposed to, say, dog-like) is reduced.
> And of course, the Cat's total measure is reduced by the
> experiment, which is bad for the Cat.
> Suppose the Cat exists in type A universes; that's good. Suppose
> the Cat exists in type B universes; that's also good. Suppose in both
> types (where they have equal measure); that's twice as good. Two Cats are
> better than one for the same reason doubling the Cat's lifespan is
> good. (Well, almost; one could argue that an older, wiser Cat is better
> than a young, foolish Cat.)
>
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> Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
> Physicist / 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 Mon Feb 07 2000 - 03:12:17 PST