On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 00:51, smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > Back to basics. There exists a universal wavefunction that evolves > according to the Schrodinger equation. Observers are internal structures > in this description. Whether or not one believes that the Born rule can > be derived or not, what matters in practice is that you'll end up having > to use it, so you have to assign a measure for observations that is > given by the summation of the squared modulus of the states that > correspond to those observations. The information about personal > identity must then also be extracted from the wavefunction, so one > cannot insert this in an ad hoc way. > > Quantum immortality is therefore wrong because the measure of the states > that correspond to extremely old observers is small.
This means that if you don’t know if you are young or very old and have to guess, you are more likely to be right if you guess that you are young. But it does not mean that you won’t inevitably become very old. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypU%2Bi1zyWR1Bfs97PDB3RZ5GCw%2BW7ApsS1T-Sxijh7tNdQ%40mail.gmail.com.
