Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > If some multiverse theory happens to be true then by your way of argument we > should all be extremely anxious all the time, because every moment terrible > things > are definitely happening to some copy of us. For example, we should be > constantly > be worrying that we will be struck by lightning, because we *will* be struck > by lightning.
If MWI is true, *and* there isn't a lowest quantum of probability/measure as Brent Meeker speculates, there is an interesting corollary to the quantum theory of immortality. While one branch always exists which continues our consciousness forward, indeed we are constantly "shedding" branches where the most brutal and horrific things happen to us and result in our death. Their measure is extremely small, so from a subjectively probability perspective, we don't worry about them. I'd speculate that there are far more logically possible ways to experience an agonizing, lingering death than to live. Some have a relatively high measure, like getting hit by a car, or getting lung cancer (if you're a smoker), so we take steps to avoid these (though they still happen in some branch.) Others, like having all our particles spontaneously quantum tunnel into the heart of a burning furnace, are so low in measure, we can blissfully ignore the possibility. Yet if MWI is true, there is some branch where this has just happened to us. (modulo Brent's probability quantum.) If there are many more ways to die than to live, even of low individual measure, I wonder how the "integral of the measure" across all of them comes out. -Johnathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---