Daughter: Daddy, daddy! Why wasn't I born beautiful and lucky like Kim Kardashian?
Father: What? Surely no daughter of mine would take Kim Kardashian as a role model! Mother: But darling - she does! All outcomes happen. Somewhere. Daughter: Does that mean I'm a Kardashian somewhere? Mother: Yes, sweetie, somewhere you make the most amazing Kardashian. Daughter: Yay! Father: <sob> Mother: In fact, I bet there's somewhere far, far away where you are a mermaid, too. And somewhere else, you're an intrepid scientist-athlete-princess-explorer adventuring among the outer planets! Daughter: But I wanna be a mermaid science princess now! Father: If you study hard at school, we can make it happen. Daughter: <frown> Mother: Don't worry sweetie, there are calculations underlying your first-person experience where you can be a mermaid science princess no matter what. But if you are committed to studying hard at school, maybe a lot more of your future paths will lead in wonderful directions like that. Best get some sleep! Daughter: Can I wake up and be a Kardashian and a mermaid both? Father/Mother: No/Yes, darling. Father/Mother: <glance at each other> Mother: You'll get every outcome, darling, even a Kardashian mermaid athlete science princess explorer. Father: But whoever you become, you'll only feel like one person at a time. One of your amazing futures will wake up right here, still our daughter, still safe at home, to grow up with us. See you there, darling. Go to sleep now. On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:08:59 AM UTC-5, 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. > > 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. > > --------------- > Someone else's go. Probably a certain Liz, I'd predict with certainty near > to probability one. > > > > > Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL > > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > [email protected] <javascript:> > Mobile: 0450 963 719 > Phone: 02 93894239 > Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com > > > *"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain* > > > -- 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.
