On 01 Aug 2014, at 11:08, Kim Jones wrote:
Daughter: Mommy, mommy! Why wasn't I born beautiful and lucky like
Kim Kardashian?
Mother: But darling - you were! All outcomes happen. Somewhere.
Daughter: I was? I was! Who thinks so?
Mother: Look, we all think you are beautiful, Mazy, it remains to be
seen as you experience your life whether you will be lucky or not.
Perhaps you will be lucky sometimes and unlucky at other times. That
tends to be how it works out. You will however, always be beautiful.
Do not underestimate the power of freewill in a deterministic
universe although you may not yet understand that at your age.
Daughter: But how does it work that I can be lucky only sometimes
yet beautiful always? That doesn't seem to work.
Mother: Bescause thats how life is, my love. Your beauty is a
property of your self whereas your self can go in all sorts of
different directions, some will produce good luck, others, not so
good luck.
Daughter: So then I get to keep my beauty always but not my luck.
Nope. Still doesn't seem to work.
Mother: But yet, perhaps somewhere, as in science fiction stories,
there is a universe where you get to be beautiful and stay lucky
always.
Daughter: Ahhhh! Yes, that must be the universe that Kim lives in,
then. How do I go there?
Mother: You can't. You are in a particular branch of the multiverse
and the computations which support you cannot be predicted. I'm
afraid you are where you are until you die. Maybe then you can go to
Kim's place.
Daughter: That truly would be heaven, Kim's place! But, Mommy - I
still cannot see why Kim gets to be Kim and Mazy is stuck with being
Mazy. Who decides these things?
Mother: That is indeed a very unanswerable question, sweetheart. I
don't even think God could answer that one.
Daughter: But if I die It seems I might go on as Kim Kardashian, so
why, oh why am I not her right now???
Mother: That's the First Person Indeterminacy, my dear.
Daughter: The what???
Mother: The 'FPI'. Some people hate it. Everyone understands it but
some people fake not understanding it because they are scared of who
they are.
Daughter: but what IS the 'FPI', mommy?
Mother: The inability to know which computations are running through
your current state and which support your local first person
experience of yourself.
Exactly.
What I say is really easy.
It is also very shocking, admittedly so, but not so much compared to
quantum weirdness which it expands a priori.
(Then, it seems to me, less shocking in the "arithmetical"
interpretation of Plotinus).
It is an internal many-mind interpretation of arithmetic (or any
sigma_1 complete theory.
The math are not that simple. The hard word has been done by Gödel,
Löb, ... Solovay, Visser, ...
Daughter: But, but - I just want to know why God is so unfair and
makes Kim Kim and makes poor little Mazy Mazy right NOW!
Mother: You have understood, sweetness.
Exactly what John Clark seems to miss, the first person after-
experiences. In both diaries, those who predicted 'no break of
symmetry', will write: "Why for God sake am I the one reconstituted in
Moscow ? (resp. Washington). The first person experience(s) break the
symmetry. In Helsinki you can be sure (assuming comp + the protocol)
of one thing, you will get one bit of information.
Bruno
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Someone else's go. Probably a certain Liz, I'd predict with
certainty near to probability one.
Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL
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