Re: more torture

From: Saibal Mitra <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:23:31 +0200

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From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
To: <smitra.domain.name.hidden>; <everything-list.domain.name.hidden.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 08:06 AM
Subject: Re: more torture


> Saibal Mitra writes:
>
> >Because no such thing as free will exists one has to consider three
> >different universes in which the three different choices are made. The
> >three
> >universes will have comparable measures. The antropic factor of 10^100
will
> >then dominate and will cause the observer to find himself having made
> >choice
> >b) as one of the 10^100 copies in the minute without torture.
>
> But what will happen to the observer when the minute is up?
>
> --Stathis


Pretending that these three universes are all that exists, what will happen
is that the OM will find himself being another one of the 10^100 copies. The
copy survives with memory loss.


Saibal
Received on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 09:26:53 PDT