On 9 June 2014 00:30, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > The same with the MWI: we still have the ability to partially chose the > type of future we want to belong. We can influence the statistics of the > normal realities. This makes the end of the second paragraph correct with > respect to comp: we cannot predict the futures notably due to the presence > of persons, which can refute the predictions, or even just makes them wrong > by sheer intrinsic complexity of the machines with introspective power. > > I knew someone - gosh, it was almost 25 years ago! - who believed that we can choose our future from the ones made available by the MWI. He even had a couple of anecdotes of occasions when he thought he'd done so. And he was a very good writer, although I don't know if he every got published. He was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research, just to round out the thumbnail sketch ... a tall guy with frizzy hair (perhaps not so now). I am trying to recall his name, not having thought about him much in the last 1/4 century... anyway, he had this idea that space-time was like a vast railway marshalling yard and we could choose which rains to run along. I always wondered what happened to the other "mes" who didn't get to go on those lines?
Do you really think we can do this? I'd like to think so, but I can't see how it would work in practice. -- 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/d/optout.
