Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:06:02 +1100

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:39:58PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Observation is implicitly defined here by measurement capable of
> selecting alternatives on which we are able to bet (or to gamble ?).
> The french word is "parier".
>

Well at least this isn't a problem of translation. But I still have
difficulty in understanding why Pp=Bp & -B-p should be translated into
English as "to bet on p" (or for that matter pourquoi on devrait
le traduire par "a parier a p")

For me Bp & -B-p is simply a statement of consistency - perhaps what
we mean by mathematical truth.

Cheers

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