On 9 August 2016 at 03:27, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: And as I've explained several times MWI does NOT have the same problem. Before *you* perform the 2 slit experiment it would NOT be gibberish to ask* you* "After the experiment what do *you* expect to see?", because both before and after the experiment the meaning of the personal pronoun "*you*" is crystal clear unique and unambiguous, "*you*" is the only chunk of matter in the observable universe that behaves in a Telmomenezesian way. And because things are stated so clearly after it's all over we can check and see if the prediction *you* made about *you* turned out to be correct or not; it might have been right and it might have been wrong but it wasn't gibberish.
It's entirely different with a duplicating machine, "What one and only one city will *you* see after *you* are duplicated?" is just words with a question mark at the end and is not a question because after "*you*" is duplicated there would be 2 chunks of matter that behaves in a Telmomenezesian way . The distinction you insist on seems arbitrary. Whether the two versions of you can meet or not, there are still two versions of you. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
