Norman Samish writes:
>"Stathis Papaioannou" writes: Of course you are right: there is no way to
>distinguish the original from the copy, given that the copying process
>works
>as intended. And if you believe that everything possible exists, then there
>will always be at least one version of you who will definitely experience
>whatever outcome you are leaving to chance. Probability is just a first
>person experience of a universe which is in fact completely deterministic,
>because we cannot access the parallel worlds where our copies live, and
>because even if we could, we can only experience being one person at a
>time.
>
>Stathis,
>When you say "if you believe that everything possible exists" are you
>implying that everything possible need NOT exist (thus refuting Tegmark)?
>Wouldn't this mean that space-time was not infinite? What hypothesis could
>explain finite space-time?
>
>If you believe that everything possible exists, does this not mean that
>there exists a universe like ours, only as it will appear 10^100 years in
>our future? And that there also exists a universe like ours, only as it
>appeared 10^9 years in the past? And that, in all worlds, all possible
>events have occurred?
Norman,
I believe that all possible universes exist, and I agree that this belief
entails all the conclusions that you have listed. However, I can't be
completely sure about all this. It certainly isn't something considered to
be true beyond reasonable doubt amongst physicists, so I don't think we
should be too dogmatic about it.
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Sun Jun 26 2005 - 19:39:41 PDT