On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:42:48AM -0000, Jason wrote: > I agree that regardless of the creation or destruction of other > copies, there is no reason for there ever to be any effect on first > person experience, that means no funny feelings, no loss of > consciousness, etc. > > RSSA Proponents: > Many-worlds implies there are always branched histories where an > observer survives to experience another observer-moment. > > ASSA Proponents: > Observer-moments that find themselves as extremely and abnormally long- > lived observers should be exceedingly rare. > > I fail to see how the above descriptions are mutually exclusive. I
These are not characterisation of the ASSA and RSSA. The one you label RSSA is known as the "No cul-de-sac assumption". The one you label as ASSA is a consequence of the ASSA, and some relatively minimal assumptions on measure. > The reason I started this thread was to discuss the possibility that > Many-Worlds is a property of this universe for purely ASSA reasons, I > see no reason for it to exist for any anthropic reasons, but due to > the exponential growth in observer moments defined by many-world > universes, it makes great sense. > > Jason > Occams razor would favour Multiverses for Anthropic Reasons. I never really understood your point about the ASSA, as the relevant *SSA for understanding what world we live in is the original SSA (birth moment sampling) which both the ASSA and the RSSA satisfy. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
