On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 at 3:48 pm, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a thought experiment of my own and this is the protocol: > > 1) I have *TWO* coins, a regular coin and a two headed coin. > 2) I flip both coins. > 3) Predict if *the one and only coin* will land heads or tails. > > You can't predict it because of coin indeterminacy. Is it too early to > start writing my Nobel Prize acceptance speech? > That question can’t be answered because if there are two coins there can’t also be one and only one coin. Similarly, if John Clarke is duplicated to two cities then it doesn’t make sense to ask which one and only one city will end up with a John Clark in it. But this is NOT the same as asking which one and only one city will John Clark see, from his own point of view. You have been through this before countless times, if some version of the multiverse is true, and you know that you only end up in one city from your own point of view, despite how many copies of you are out there. -- 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.
