Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > There are many ways to escape from this scenario. If you are Tookie, you > will find yourself shunted into increasingly less likely situations: not > being caught in the first place; being caught but not being found > guilty; being sentenced to death but getting off on appeal; being > pardoned by the Governer at the last moment; finding that you are one of > the 1/billion people who have a natural resistance to the lethal agent.
Only your last scenario is causally connected to having received a lethal injection. What does "shunted" mean in the above? Once I experience having had the injection, how would I get "shunted" to any of the preceding outcomes? > If that all falls through, you might find that your arrest and execution > was all part of a dream, or that you were actually executed but your > head was preserved and you were resurrected as a computer upload in the > future, or you were resurrected as a result of brute force emulation of > every possible human mind in the very far future. These latter > possibilities may be more likely than quantum tunneling to a tropical > island, but in the final analysis, however unlikely the escape route may > be, if its probability is non-zero, then it *has* to happen, doesn't it? These scenarios are all causally connected to having been lethally injected. But your final question goes to the heart of the issue I raised. What is the likeliest scenario which includes the memory of being lethally injected? Are there always non-zero probability outcomes, which, according to MWI, must be realized somewhere? -Johnathan
