On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 at 3:35 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> 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. >> > > > Why? Subjectively 1000 identical copies of > > Stathis Papaioannou > > running in parallel would be indistinguishable from one. And subjectivity > is what we're interested in. If a thousand phonographs are synchronized and > playing the same symphony and > then > one phonograph is destroyed the music does not stop. > In the next few moments in the multiverse multiple parallel copies of me will continue writing this email for each one copy of me that quantum tunnels to the other side of the Earth. Should I consider both outcomes subjectively equally likely? Bruno answered this (I think) by saying that the greater weight of the ordinary experiences comes from their potential future differentiation. -- 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.
