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

From: rmiller <rmiller.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:52:49 -0500

At 12:43 PM 6/11/2005, Hal Finney wrote:
>Here's a little tongue-in-cheek rant...
>(snip)
>
>Yet how many philosophers are willing to seriously consider abandoning
>this arbitrary conditioning in deciding what is right and wrong? How many
>of us here are willing to take the logical path to its ultimate conclusion
>when considering how observer-moments fit together? It goes against the
>deepest instincts which have been burned into us since the origin of life.
>
>I would not be quick disparage evolutionarily based reasoning. We are
>creatures of evolution, and it is almost impossible to escape the bounds
>that it has put around our ways of thought.
>
>Hal Finney

If you consider the matrix of all observer-moments (possibly under the eye
of something like Hilgard's Hidden Observer), then it would be impossible
to cut the links any more than trying to wear a shirt with all the threads
cut. The shirt would disintegrate off your back (like my Izod's did
recently.) Or possibly, it could be like a Photoshop image with a 100
subtle layers---remove the layers and the entire image changes
slightly---but after awhile you're down to one monochromatic layer.

Rich Miller
Received on Sat Jun 11 2005 - 16:07:45 PDT