Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 09:40:42 +0100

Hi Saibal,

Le Samedi 3 Décembre 2005 02:15, Saibal Mitra a écrit :
> Correction, I seem to have misunderstood Statis' set up. If you really
> create a new world and then create and kill the person there then the
> probability of survival is 1. This is different from quantum mechanical
> branch splitting.
>
> To see this, consider first what would have happened had the person not
> been killed. Then his measure would have doubled. But because he is killed
> in one of the two copies of Earth, his measure stays the same. In a quantum
> suicide experiment his measure would be reduced by a factor two.

His measure would be reduced by a factor two relative to what ? Do you mean
there exists an absolute measure ?

Quentin
Received on Sat Dec 03 2005 - 04:02:09 PST