This doubling of the absolute measure is important. In another posting you
wrote about being teleported to many places and then being annihilated
everywhere except at the original place. This won't affect the probability
of being alive at the original place. But in a QC experiment where you have
many outcomes, all leading to death except one, the probability of
experiencing that branch is very small.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
To: <smitra.domain.name.hidden>; <everything-list.domain.name.hidden.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow
> Well, I did actually intend my example to be analogous to the Tegmark QS
> experiment. Are you saying that if there is only one world and magically
an
> identical, separate world comes into being this is fundamentally different
> to what happens in quantum branch splitting? It seems to me that in both
> cases the relative measure of everything in the world stays the same, even
> though in absolute terms there is double of everything.
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
>
>
> Saibal Mitra writes:
>
> >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.
>
> > > If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I
am
> > > instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are
> > > several possible ways this might be interpreted from the 1st person
> > > viewpoint:
> > >
> > > (a) Pr(I live) = Pr(I die) = 0.5
> > >
> > > (b) Pr(I live) = 1, Pr(I die) = 0
> > >
> > > (c) Pr(I live) = 0, Pr(I die) = 1
>
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