As I said, this is a completely new interpretation of QTI, one never
stated before. QTI does _not_ assume that memory is conserved. The
prediction that one may end up being so old as to not know how old you
are is based on the assumption that you total memory capacity remains
constant - it need not do so. On the other hand, I have no problem
with the fact that dementia might set in.
I suspect you are trying to find ways of making QTI compatible with
Jacques ASSA based argument, when it is clear his argument fails
completely. Not that the argument is unimportant, as the reasons for
the failure are also interesting.
Cheers
Saibal Mitra wrote:
>
> I just argue that to compute the probability distribution for your next
> experience, given your previous ones, you must also consider continuations
> were you suffer memory loss. QTI fails to do so and it is precisely this
> that leads to the the prediction that you should find yourself being
> infinitely old, or that you should live for arbitrary long. If you are
> severly injured in an accident and dying, then the probability that you will
> survive in a branch where the accident never happened is much larger than
> living on in a branch where the accident did happen.
>
> That continuations with memory loss are important can be verified
> ``experimentally´´ (I don't remember everything that has happened to me).
> There are also continuations of me that never forget anything. I am not one
> of them.
>
> Saibal
>
>
> Russell Standish wrote:
>
> > Never heard of this reasoning before. Can you expand please? This
> > doesn't appear to be related to the problem of being required to
> > forget how old you if you are immortal in a physical human sense.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Saibal Mitra wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > According to the conventional QTI, not only do you live forever, you can
> =
> > > also never forget anything. I don't believe this because I know for a =
> > > fact that I have forgotten quite a lot of things that have happened a =
> > > long time ago.
> > >
> > > Saibal
> > >
> >
> >
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