Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:21:19 -0800

Bruno Marchal wrote:

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> Le 05-déc.-05, à 02:46, Saibal Mitra a écrit :
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>> I still think that if you double everything and then annihilate only the
>> doubled person, the probability will be 1.
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> Actually I agree with this.
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So far we have been talking about splitting universes and people. Let's
consider the case where two branches of the universe merge. In other
words, two different paths eventually happen to become identical - Of
course when this happens all their branching futures also become
identical. Would you say that such a double branch has double the
measure of a single branch even though the two branches are totally
indistinguishable? How can you possibly assert that any branch is
single, double, or a bundle composed of any number of identical
individual branches?

George
Received on Thu Dec 08 2005 - 16:49:32 PST