Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

[George Levy]

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