Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

From: <daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:20:52 -0500

Jesse wrote:
>Tom Caylor wrote: 
>> 
>>>The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets could just as easily be 
>>explained in a single universe.  
>> 
>>I short-changed my argument. I should've said, "The reason why you
>>don't buy lottery tickets can only be explained in a single
universe." 
>>  
>>Tom Caylor  
>> 
>If you don't accept a measure on the entire multiverse, then you're
>not going to have any solution to what on this list is usually called
the
>"white rabbit problem", explaining why you don't expect to see weird
>events like talking white rabbits or Harry Potter style magic or 300
>successive lottery wins. After all, there should be possible worlds
>within the multiverse where everything up to today is just the same
>as in a "normal" universe where the laws of nature stay stable, but
>after that point the probabilities of strange white-rabbit-style events
>radically increase. Since your experience up to the present is
>compatible with either type of universe, unless you are willing to
>say that white rabbit universes have a lower absolute measure than
>stable-laws-of-nature universes, you have no justification for
expecting
>that you are unlikely to experience such events in your future. 
> 
>Jesse

The white rabbit problem is a problem only for multiverse believers.

Tom
Received on Tue Dec 13 2005 - 17:22:58 PST