On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:30 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> 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.* That doesn't follow. Yes there have been an awful lot of people born within the last 500 years but that number is utterally dwarfed by the number of quantum interactions that occurred in the last 500 years, and if Many Worlds is correct then each one created a universe. So there is indeed a universe that has a 300 year old man in it and even a 30,000 year old man, but it is very unlikely you're living in one of them. By the way, Hugh Everett the inventor of the Many Worlds idea was working for the pentagon in 1962 and everybody knew the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was extremely dangerous, but recently as new information gets unclassified it's now apparent it was vastly more dangerous than anybody thought at the time. I think a logical person analyzing all the data would conclude the most likely outcome was global thermonuclear war. But as unlikely as it seems we somehow survived, at least in this universe. John K Clark -- 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/CAJPayv1ACY10%2BRV8wHSCzP34zqR_MG9mKHOh4ZZ7c%3Df4FW7YAg%40mail.gmail.com.
