On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 12:47, Mason Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here’s a recent editorial I found in the magazine arguing against
> Many-Worlds on the grounds that it denies the reality of experience or the
> self. (
> https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-many-worlds-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics-has-many-problems-20181018/
> )
>
> Well, if we don’t want many-worlds or subjectivism, than the only other
> option looks like it’d be to modify QM itself. Some form of digital physics
> might work, otherwise we could have objective collapse (either random, or
> else there’s something/someone outside the universe choosing which path the
> universe follows).
>

That article just claims, without explanation, that it would be impossible
to have consciousness if you were continually being duplicated. I don't
think you should accept this without further thought.

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