On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 5:17 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 9/11/2019 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019, '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. >> >> >> Brent >> > > > I mean amnesic regarding the full extent of your billion+ year life. > > > But if I don't remember it, was it me? > You might remember more when you wake up. I think eventually the probability of your consciousness continuing through an old-age body gets so low that more likely continuation paths occur, such as waking up as a technologically advanced being playing sim-human, or having your ever diminishing conscious awareness eventually intersect with another similarly diminished consciousness (perhaps that of a brain still developing in a womb or an egg). Jason -- 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/CA%2BBCJUgH_9wOkx89yFwyMQjTio2x7VCVEoMYqVpqjLy8iqXhPQ%40mail.gmail.com.
