On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:10:15PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Of course keyboard-dragon types of transformations are utterly NOT > verifiable, even in the ironical first person way of quantum or comp > suicide. If you decide to kill yourself until your keyboard transforms > itself into a firing dragon, a "simple" evaluation of the > probabilities will show that you have 99,9999... % of chance of > surviving only with a brain making you believing that such a > transformation has occurred, when it has not. It is the general > practical weakness of comp or quantum suicide: if you ask for > something *near-impossible", suicide will send you in dreamland (1 > person view), and probably in a asylum (3 person view). >
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