Le 04-juil.-06, à 04:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
> Lee Corbin writes:
>
> > > which is why in symmetrical duplication experiments I anticipate
> > > that I will become one of the duplicates with equal probability.
> >
> > What do you think of your survival chances if you happen to know
> > that after you fall asleep tonight, you will be disintegrated,
> > but the information will be used to create two exact duplicates,
> > and then one of the duplicates is vaporized and the other
> > returned to your bed completely unaware?
> >
> > Zero? (I.e., you don't survive the "teleportation" aspect at all.)
> >
> > One-half? (I.e., your soul goes into one at random, and if that's
> > the one that dies, then your number is up.)
> >
> > One? (I.e., Stathis will wake up in bed for sure tomorrow, and
> > resume his life just as he has done everyday (since our
> > fiendish experiments began when he was five years old))
>
> One. That's how it will *seem* and that is what is important to me.
In case someone doubt it, it is the comp answer. But then, what happens
to you in front of a universal dovetailing ?
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue Jul 04 2006 - 12:12:47 PDT