On 9 August 2016 at 03:27, John Clark <[email protected]> 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 [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.
