Re: Many Pasts? Not according to QM...

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:10:31 +1000

On 25th May 2005 Saibal Mitra wrote:

>One of the arguments in favor of the observer moment picture is that it
>solves Tegmark's quantum suicide paradox. If you start with a set of all
>possible observer moments on which a measure is defined (which can be
>calculated in principle using the laws of physics), then the paradox never
>arises. At any moment you can think of yourself as being randomly drawn
>from
>the set of all possible observer moments. The observer moment who has
>survived the suicide experiment time after time after time has a very very
>very low measure.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the paradox never arises" here. You have said
in the past that although you initially believed in QTI, you later realised
that it could not possibly be true (sorry if I am misquoting you, this is
from memory). Or are you distinguishing between QTI and QS?

--Stathis Papaioannou

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