RE: many worlds theory of immortality

From: Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:24:08 -0400

Johnathan Colvin:

>That's a good question. I can think of a chess position that is a-priori
>illegal. But our macroscopic world is so complex it is far from obvious
>what
>is allowed and what is forbidden.

So what if some chess position is illegal? They are only illegal according
to the rules of chess, but the point of the "all logically possible worlds
exist" idea is not just that all possible worlds consistent with a given set
of rules (such as our universe's laws of physics) exist, but that all
possible worlds consistent with all logically possible *rules* exist. So the
only configurations that would be forbidden would be logically impossible
ones like "square A4 both does and does not contain a pawn".

Jesse
Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 01:26:14 PDT