Re: Quantum accident survivor

[George Levy]

Russel, If you view the "observer-moments" as transitions  rather than states, then  there is no need  for requiring a time dimension. Each observer-moments carries with it its own subjective feeling of time. Different observer-moments can form vast networks without any time requirement. Saibal IMHO  the main difference between ASSA and RSSA is that measure is assumed to be absolute in ASSA and relative in RSSA. Accidental or intended death in ASSA corresponds to an objective decrease in measure (as seen by first or third person). In RSSA death is accompanied by a decrease in the measure of a first person as seen by a 3rd person. However, measure of a first person as seen by a first person remains constant. Because of this drastic difference, ASSA and RSSA supporters are led to widely different views of Quantum immortality. George Russell Standish wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: To get the effect you were suggesting would require another type of SSA, about which I have complete failure of imagination. I think it is similar. You have a set of all universes which we identify with descriptions or programs. Embedded in these descriptions are descriptions of self aware substructures. A measure on the set of all programs defines a measure on the set of all substructures. I then say: ''That's all there is''. The proponents of RSSA go further and postulate new rules about what the next experience of a SAS should be. What you are actually doing is promoting our experience of the flowing of time to fundamental law. However, this is something that should be derived from more fundamental concepts. Saibal The flowing of subjective time is proposed as necessary for conscious observation. In order for information to exist, there must be a difference between two states. In order to perceive that difference, there must be at least one dimension along which the observer must move to experience that difference. Hence time. Yes it is an assumption (or postulate). But hardly ad hoc. Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967, 8308 3119 (mobile) UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965, 0425 253119 (") Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------