*Stathis wrote:* *You may as well claim that an infinite single universe should not existbecause it boggles the human mind. *
** *Stathis Papaioannou* *---------------------------------------------------* We are talking *"think of"* rather than* 'exist'* - unless you consider it as 'existing in someones boggled mind" as an idea (boggled thought, nightmare). John M On 5/25/10, Michael Gough <[email protected]> wrote: > > The branching is occurring at every moment, so if even one set of said > parents got it on, there would be "umpteen trillons(TM)" of copies of said > individual. It has nothing to do really with the parents at all. Once you > exist, there's umpteen trillions of copies that stem from the state of the > individual at each moment in time. > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:59 AM, m.a. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM >> *Subject:* Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 20/05/2010, at 4:12 PM, "m.a." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I may have this all wrong, but it seems to me that for there to be >> umpteen trillion copies of a person there had to be umpteen trillion (UT) >> copies of his parents. And only a relatively small sub-group of those met >> and cohabited at the exact moment of his/her conception. But the same must >> have been true for their parents and their parents' parents and so forth >> back to the primoridal slime. And this staggering foliation of universes >> only covers one specific zygote of two specific gametes. What of all the >> other UT^UT combinations leading to the creation of other individuals just >> on this family tree? And what of all the other combinations and histories of >> every human, animal, insect and bacterium on this planet? Does it really >> make sense to assume numbers of universes so far beyond our ability to >> conceive of? marty a. >> >> >> You may as well claim that an infinite single universe should not exist >> because it boggles the human mind. >> >> >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> I don't know, Stathis. Somehow it seems easier for me to conceive of ONE >> infinite universe than to conceive of umpteen trillion trillion >> trillion^umpteen trillion trillion trillion^umpteen...universes. My "mind" >> is obviously more limited than yours. m.a. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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]<everything-list%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> >> -- >> 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]<everything-list%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> > > -- > 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]<everything-list%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- 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.
