On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 at 4:45 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I would say the probability of ending up in Washington is 1000 times as >> high, even if the 1000 copies never differentiate. > > > If 2 things never differentiate then they are identical in every way > and there is no way to tell if there is 1 thing or 2, so it would be silly > to say there are 2 . And it would remain true if the thing in question > is subjective experience. And it would be as true for 1000 as it is for 2. > There is the possibility of differentiation even if it doesn't occur. If you know you have been duplicated into 1000 red cubicles and 1 blue cubicle, identical on the inside, you would bet that if you opened the door your cubicle would be red. > -- 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.
