On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 , meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you really want it to be like the MWI explanation of the 2 slit >> experiment (the one when the photons end up hitting a photographic plate >> rater than continue into infinite space) then you'd have to modify Bruno's >> thought experiment experiment a bit. The Helsinki Man steps into the >> machine and a copy ends up in Moscow and another is sent to Washington, the >> Helsinki Man is then instantly destroyed. The 2 men spend a hour >> investigating their cities and then they both step into a slightly >> different type of duplicating machine and are instantly destroyed but not >> before it makes a SINGLE copy and transports it back to Helsinki. This new >> Helsinki Man is identical to the old one except that he has vivid memories >> of being in both Moscow and Washington during the previous hour. > > > Quite aside from Bruno's meta-physics, that's probably impossible. >
I don't see why that would be impossible, certainly the laws of physics don't forbid it. > He will either suppress some or confabulate the time order to make them > consistent. > I'll bet that right now you have memories where you're not sure if X happened before Y or Y happened before X. To the Helsinki Man it would probably be like those pictures that look like a vase and also like 2 people in silhouette http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://joeltalks.com/web_images/vase.gif&imgrefurl=http://joeltalks.com/index.php?p%3D1_18&h=350&w=280&tbnid=jLHGiNBpb_H0oM:&zoom=1&docid=koIgmJ7HMqkfdM&hl=en&ei=kKIRVd_PIpbbsAS5jIHIBQ&tbm=isch&ved=0CB0QMygAMAA Sometime it would seem like the Washington experience happened first and then the Moscow one, but when he thinks about it in a different way it would seem like Moscow happened first and then Washington.. But if I'm wrong about that and there is some unknown quirk in human biology that would prevent that sort of memory then that would mean that none of Bruno's copying machine style thought experiments can be used as a analogy for the MWI or for any quantum interpretation. 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.
