RE: Quantum accident survivor

From: David Barrett-Lennard <dbl.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:43:32 +0800

I have a feeling some of these points of view are not falsifiable (and
therefore somewhat meaningless). An individual that is about to
experience a QM immortality episode can't perform additional experiments
to answer (philosophical) questions about his identity. The only
observable is the survivor who can talk about who he is and what he
remembers.

Please note that my understanding of QM is rather lame... Doesn't MWI
require some interaction between branches in order to explain things
like interference patterns in the two slit experiment? What does this
mean for the concept of "identity"?

- David
Received on Wed Nov 05 2003 - 20:45:41 PST