Saibal and Stathis: does this mean (in reverse) that some "new" idea (creative alteration or new combination) would CHANGE the (future) world as well? What I mean: if erasing from the inventory (of our memory-mass) DOES change the PAST world(?), does some addition to it change it as well? (Should I 'think' creatively and profusely about millions of dollars to get rich? I will).
Respectfully John Mikes On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Saibal Mitra <smi...@zeelandnet.nl> wrote: > > Thanks! This is like undoing historical events. If you forget about the > fact that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth and there is an alternative history > that led to your existence in the multiverse, and you do the memory erasure > also in sectors were dinosaurs never lived, you have some nonzero > probability of finding yourself on an Earth were the dinosaurs never lived. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruno Marchal" <marc...@ulb.ac.be> > To: <everything-l...@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 06:54 PM > Subject: Re: Changing the past by forgetting > > > > > > Nice! I did refer often to the Saibal Mitra backtracking procedure (in > > immortality discussions). I will take a further look on your paper. > > If valid, it should work in the comp frame. Amnesia could lead you to > > the "original singularity", which could be a kind of blind spot of > > "universal consciousness", except that with comp such a singularity > > should looks like a "little Mandelbrot" set, at first sight, I mean > > something like a compact view of a universal dovetailing. > > > > Bruno > > > > On 10 Mar 2009, at 19:55, Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > > > > > > http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3825 > > > > > > I've written up a small article about the idea that you could end up > > > in a > > > different sector of the multiverse by selective memory erasure. I had > > > written about that possibility a long time ago on this list, but now > > > I've > > > made the argument more rigorous. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---