On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:24 AM Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Le lun. 24 juin 2019 à 22:00, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> a écrit : > >> On 6/24/2019 12:56 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> Le lun. 24 juin 2019 à 20:52, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> >>> What is "ordered"? A sample is just a sample, it has no order. If >>> quantum immortality is true, then you must exist at all ages. And a sample >>> from that distribution is unlikely to find you young. Sure, if you >>> condition on being young, then you will see young people around >>> you...because whether you are young or not you will see young people around >>> you. The problem is that YOU are most likely to be old. >>> >> >> The thing is you had to be young first. You're talking with ASSA in mind. >> ASSA is nonsense. >> >> >> So if I go on a thousand mile journey I'm most likely to find myself >> within a mile of my starting point. I think THAT's nonsense. >> > > > You're not talking about mwi but a theory where moments exist by > themselves and are selected randomly... That's nonsense. > On the theory of quantum immortality, you have many more old moments than young moments. If it is nonsense that this means that you are more likely to find yourself old, then this is the same nonsense that underlies any account of quantum phenomena in terms of self-location on some branch of the wave function or the other. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTTRSng8Yi4CvD7NOynM7VWd3vgY6j6abgCZxKx8CUDOw%40mail.gmail.com.
