On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> If we discovered some way of communicating with the other worlds, that > would be interesting Interesting is a understatement, communicating with other worlds would change everything, then the situation really would be equivalent to living in a world with matter duplicating machines. But we can't communicate with other worlds and most think we never will. > but I don't think it would make any difference to how people think about > themselves and probability I disagree, if the communication was easy and in common usage I think it would change our gut feelings about a lot of things. For one thing the entire English language, especially personal pronouns, would need to be radically overhauled. > > 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". If the lottery is tomorrow and they are pedantic they would say "I hope the day after tomorrow the thing that remembers being me today remembers winning the lottery yesterday", and their hope would be fulfilled. And if they are pedantic they would also say "I fear that the day after tomorrow the thing that remembers being me today remembers losing the lottery yesterday" and their fear would be realized. But I don't think anybody is quite that pedantic. John K Clark -- 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.
