On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just open the door of course; and your description was quite >> incorrect. No person will be killed when that door is opened because the >> person of John Clark is an adjective not a noun, John Clark is the way >> matter behaves when it is organized in a Johnclarkian way, and there is >> still a chunk of matter organized in a Johnclarkian way in that duplicate >> room. >> > > > Nice. Just one question though. After you duplicate yourself, how do you > decide which body opens the door and dies? >
Nobody dies in your scenario. And being identical both would try to open the door at the same time but random quantum variations guarantee that one would open the door slightly before the other. 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.
