On Sunday, March 1, 2015, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stath...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > > > Can you clarify where you do and don't have a problem with the pronoun >> "you"? Presumably there is no problem for you if there is a unique world >> with only one version of you. What about the MWI >> > > With Everett and with everyday life there is no ambiguity in what the > personal pronoun "You" refers to, but matter duplicating machines are not > in everyday life and there is lots of ambiguity. > > >> > or other multiverse? >> > > There is no ambiguity, the meaning of "you" is clear because no observer > can see more than one John Clark and nobody even knows for sure that more > than one exists. But in a world with matter duplicating machines it's > obvious there is more than one John Clark because you're looking at them. >
If we discovered some way of communicating with the other worlds, that would be interesting, but I don't think it would make any difference to how people think about themselves and probability. Instead of saying "I hope I win the lottery" they may say, if they are pedantic, "I hope I end up the version of me that wins the lottery". The only real difference a multiverse would make to people is that it seems to imply that they can't die because some version of them always survives. > > What about a branching computer simulation? >> > > Well you tell me. If when the program reaches point X half the time it > goes down path Y and half the time down path Z and I start talking about > what the program will do when it goes down "the path" as if there were only > one do you see any ambiguity? > > John K Clark > > > > > > >> >> >> -- >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> -- >> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list@googlegroups.com');>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
