Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:26 -0800

Jesse Mazer wrote:

> George Levy:
>
>> Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>>> we are "conscious" only because we belong to a continuum of infinite
>>> never ending stories ...
>>> ...that's what the lobian machine's "guardian angel" G* says about
>>> that: true and strictly unbelievable.
>>
>> Bruno
>> Since you agree that the number of histories is on a continuum, you
>> must accept that no matter how large or small a segment of the
>> continuum is considered, the number of histories is the same. Hence
>> measure is the same for any observer.
>
>
> The whole concept of "measure" is based on assigning different
> probabilities to different infinite sets--the fact that two sets have
> the same cardinality doesn't imply they must have the same measure.
> For example, any continuous probability distribution used in
> statistics (the bell curve, for example) can be used to assign a
> measure to an arbitrary finite interval (which necessarily contains an
> infinite number of points), the measure just being the area under the
> curve over that interval.
>
> Jesse


Jesse I agree with you from the third person perspective. You can only
take a measure of infinite sets when you have more then one set . In
other words you need at least two sets so you can compare them. However
in the case of first person perspective, the observer has only his own
set. All he has is the cardinality of the set and he has only one set.
No other set to compare it to. The cardinality is the same for all first
person observers.

George
Received on Tue Dec 13 2005 - 22:59:53 PST