Re: Quantum Suicide

From: Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon Dec 18 03:48:52 2000

Brent Meeker wrote:

>If you reject reduction of the wave-function then information is never
>lost since evolution of the wave function is strictly unitary. I don't
>think Bruno really meant to say that no one experiences a reality in
>which he dies...I think he only meant no one experiences a reality in
>which he is dead.

Yes. Sure. That's why to be dead cannot be taken as granted, albeit
agony is sort of certainty ...
With comp (or Everett's QM) you always seem to survive, from
your point of view, in a most "similar"
computationnal computation.
What does it really looks like in the long run is an open problem ...

Bruno
Received on Mon Dec 18 2000 - 03:48:52 PST