Lee Corbin writes:
>The problem is actually one of *anticipation*. As naturally evolved
>creatures, we are fashioned to anticipate the next moments. I have no
>time now to get into it, but I don't think that this feeling of
>anticipation really can be rigorously used; it's (unfortunately)
>riddled with problems. Yet we are wired to observe it. So before
>the great Die roll, you must anticipate seeing 1..6 and *not*
>seeing the quantum fluctuation. Moreover, if one of the normal
>six outcomes is associated with a very unpleasant experience,
>you cannot help but think that it's similar to having a one in
>six chance of the bad thing happening, and a 5 in 6 chance of
>it not happening. But I think that's a lie: the truth is that
>each outcome *will* happen. The only thing that gives you any
>consolation is that the measure of the bad thing is only 1/6
>while the measure of the good things is 5/6.
It *is* a lie that only one outcome will happen; and the anticipation of
this lie is therefore a kind of delusion. But as you suggest, we are wired
up to believe these lies, and this occurs at a very basic level which cannot
be overturned by mere reason. While I am interested intellectually in a
rational and objective understanding of these matters, emotionally I am
interested in perpetuating the delusion that I am not actually the one
suffering, and I don't really care how this effect is achieved.
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Thu Jun 02 2005 - 23:24:59 PDT