On 15 Mar 2014, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote:
On 3/14/2014 7:21 PM, Matt Bell wrote:
This may very possibly be an idea that has already been discussed
(I am very new to this topic, so I'm still exploring the landscape
of ideas), but it has been on my mind recently.
If you subscribe to the theories of MWI/UDA, then the idea of
quantum immortality/suicide follows (an observer only perceives
universes where it continues to exist, so from its perspective it
exists forever). From this, it follows that an observer can
"program" the universe into any possible state with the following
process:
- Choose a condition for the universe (e.g. "It will start raining
at my location within 10 seconds.")
- Evaluate whether you are in a universe where the condition is
true ("10 seconds have passed. Has it started raining?")
- If the condition is false, stop existing (in a human context,
suicide :/).
- If the process was followed correctly (the condition was
evaluated accurately) the observer should only exist in universes
with the chosen state
This relies on the assumption that there is a possible universe
where the condition is true, and that the condition can be
effectively evaluated.
I'm not yet sure about what to think about conditions about past
events. What happens if the chosen condition was "It started
raining less than an hour ago."? This would possibly work as
expected if you don't evaluate the condition until after you chose
it (you were in a soundproof, windowless room for the last hour, so
you didn't know it started raining until after you decided on the
condition).
Any thoughts? Or relevant material I should know about? Also, let
me know if there's some huge flaw in my thinking.
A possible flaw is that, if the holographic principle is true, that
there are not nearly so many possible future states as you may
suppose. What is "possible" in QM is not the same as "logically
conceivable".
That's correct, but we assume usually "classical" quantum mechanics.
Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it seems to me
that QM will still provide the rooms for immortality (not necessarily
a good news). Then, in such reasoning, QM uses comp, and comp by
itself leads to many forms of immortalities, if I can say.
Bruno
Brent
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