On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:51:24PM +0000, chris peck wrote: > > Perhaps you don't, but it isn't important. I think it is generally accepted, > perhaps not on this list, that one would be banging at the walls of the > teleporter, screaming to be released, certain of impending death. That kind > of intuition. The kind it has been fruitful not to ignore in our evolutionary > past. ;) >
Ah - perhaps I misread your previous characterisation. I had assumed you meant that it took a minute or two for the copy to be reconstituted, while the original was annihilated immediately. I see Bruno read it that way too, as this is step 4 of the UDA. But perhaps now you're asking us to consider the situation where instead there is a delay in annihilation, such that the copy scheduled for annihilation knows that e has been cloned, and that e has not teleported. This is a sort of cul de sac experience, which has to be impossible to create if QTI is true. The existence of a universal dovetailer entails the lack of all cul de sac experiences (Comp immortality). Of course if I ever did find myself in a cul de sac in the teleporter room, I'd bang at the walls too! But then I would also know (rather briefly) that COMP is false. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
