Saibal Mitra wrote: > > Yes, you can save the ``conventional�� quantum immortality theorem by > extending the definition of a person, but is a person with an astronomical > amount of data stored in his brain plus all of my memory really me? I would > say not. >
If that person remembers being you at an earlier age then I would say yes - it is the same person. It is following conventional usage. Why shouldn't the $60million man still be the same person after his prosthetics operations? > I would go even further: The person I was when I was 3 years old is dead. He > died because too much new information was added to his brain. > This view would align you with Jacques Mallah and James Higgo with their "observer moment" view of reality. I have expressed my many disagreements with this approach in the everything list - its not an easy position to counter. > A different version of quantum immortality is more reasonable (meaning that > it has a much higher probability than the conventional version). The process > of death necessarily involves the destruction of the brain. The dying person > thus looses information. At a certain point the information that he is dying > is lost to the person. At that time the information still present in the > brain will be exactly identical to the information present in another > person's brain somewhere else in the multiverse. Let's call him X. There > will be an infinite number of X's > > There is then a high probability that X is not dying, that in fact he is > almost identical to the original person at a younger age. The dying person > thus walks away in X's body. > > Saibal > > Interesting scenario - but I suspect you would be walking away in worm's body. Hey perhaps the Bhuddists are right about reincarnation after all! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965 Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
