On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:51 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/10/2019 5:35 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:18 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 9/10/2019 4:30 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> > Another argument that has been given here before is that if quantum >> > immortality is true, then we should expect to see a number of people >> > who are considerably older than the normal life expectancy -- and we >> > do not see people who are two or three hundred years old. Even if the >> > probabilities are very low, there have been an awful lot of people >> > born within the last 500 or so years -- some must have survived on our >> > branch if this scenario is true. >> >> My argument was that each of us should find ourselves to be much older >> than even the oldest people we know. >> >> > You could be very old, but (perhaps temporarily) amnesiac. > > > Then it's strange that so many other people and photographs happen to > agree with my memory. Must be a conspiracy to hide the secret of quantum > immortality. It would certainly be unpopular once people thought about > what it means. > Exploring further after my initial post on this, I found the following paper by Mallah: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0187 which explores the issues in some detail. He consider the arguments against both quantum suicide and quantum immortality to be decisive. 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/CAFxXSLTsFDps%2BzhudGxrdUuf%2BdxTtRZnBYW0zdxhTutdhq7NAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
