On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Who's personal experience? >>> >> >> > Bruno makes it clear that he only considers what someone writes in a >> diary as being what counts for the purposes of the thought experiment. >> > (This is obviously a proxy for memory in most situations, but it >> simplifies matters so we don't get confused about what he is talking about.) >> > > If the machine is sophisticated enough to duplicate the human brain and > all the memories it contains then duplicating the diary would be child's > play. > > > he MWI turns the universe into a matter duplicating machine. > > > But very special type of duplicating machine where the laws of physics > forbid anyone from observing any of the duplicates that the machine has > made, so the personal pronoun "you" never causes ambiguity. > >> >> This is a specious argument. If the possibility of future interaction is so irksome to you, then proceed with the assumption that they're duplicated outside each other's light cones. Or use the example of a forked computer simulation containing a brain emulation of an observer. You have nothing to lose in proceeding to step 4, and possibly something to gain: a record for having spent the most time on step 3. Jason -- 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.
