What do you mean by *entirely equal*? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kwinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:19 AM Subject: Re: Quantum accident survivor
> On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Eric Cavalcanti wrote: > > > > Let me stress this point: *I am, for all practical purposes, > > one and only one specific configuration of atoms in a > > specific universe. I could never say that ' I ' is ALL the > > copies, since I NEVER experience what the other copies > > experience. The other copies are just similar > > configurations of atoms in other universes, which shared > > the same history, prior to a given point in time.* > > > I would consider these other copies entirely equal to myself IF AND > ONLY IF they are succeeding RSSA observer-moments. > > > > Glossary references : ) > > RSSA - The Relative Self-Sampling Assumption, which says that you should > consider your next observer-moment to be randomly sampled from among all > observer-moments which come immediately after your current > observer-moment > and belong to the same observer. >
