2014-02-10 6:08 GMT+01:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 2/9/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Even on his argument, that nobody understand but him, against step 3? Then > I invite you to attempt to explain it to us. > > > > I think I understand it. Asking the question "which will you be" in the > MW experiment is ambiguous because "you" is duplicated. One can quite > reasonably say that neither the M-man or the W-man is the H-man, the H-man > has been destroyed. This is exactly the position taken by a professor of > philosophy I happen to know. This makes the probability questions trivial: > What is the probability the M-man sees Moscow? It's 1. The difference > between John and me is that I accepted the thought experiment as a model of > Everett's wave function splitting in order to see where it would lead. >
If you advocate such position (as the professor of philosophy you happen to know), then you can't say *you* survive such duplication experiment (because as you said, you the H-man is destroyed)... but John does not advocate such position as he acknowledge he would survive and mistakenly attribute after the fact probability (which is nonsense), as such his position is inconsistent, also by the protocol the "you" is not ambiguous, you is the everyday feeling of being you (and if it is ambiguous in the experiment, then it is ambiguous in everyday life), and as it is meaningful to ask in an everett world such a question, it is meaningful with computationalism and duplication. Regards, Quentin > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
