Saibal Mitra wrote:
> If you encounter a ''branching'' in which one of the possibilities is
>death, that
> branch cannot be said to be nonexistent relative to you. Quantum
>mechanics
>doesn't
> imply that you can never become unconscious, otherwise you could never
>fall
>asleep!
>
This latter statement seems to come up now and again. QM or QTI do not imply
that you can never lose consciousness. The idea is that you can never
*experience* loss of consciousness. You can fall asleep, but when you wake
up, you don't remember being asleep. If you never wake up - i.e. if you die
in your sleep - then you never experience that particular branch of the MW.
In other words, you can only experience those worlds where the loss of
consciousness is temporary.
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Thu Apr 14 2005 - 03:01:35 PDT