Only if you wake up and find out winning the lottery was a mistake, which seems less likely than waking up a winner. Waking up as one of the many copies who didn't win is not one of the options - those copies are not continuations of the you who won the lottery.
On Thursday, 4 August 2016, smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > Suppose that you won the lottery, you had a one in a hundred million > chance to win, so you got extremely lucky. You party, go to bed and think > about planning your trip around the World next morning. > > In the MWI, things will actually not pan out this way. What will happen is > that the next morning you'll wake up as one of your copies who did not win > the lottery. > > This is the flip side of the "anything that can happen will happen" aspect > of the MWI. While you have a copy who has won the lottery, in fact there > even exists an extremely freak copy who has won every time, it's not true > that if you find yourself as one of these copies, you can expect to > continue to be one of these copies. > > If you think of something else and then return your thoughts about your > bank balance, then that is a new measurement, and in the MWI the outcome is > not fixed, there are only stable correlations. So, if you already know that > you have won the lottery, then you'll find a consistent result upon a new > measurement. > > Saibal > > -- > 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 https://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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
