On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:43 PM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 22:56, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 16 Sep 2019, at 05:51, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 9/15/2019 6:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> And memory is fallible, and memory of age has no more meaning when your >> age is bigger that the nameable or describable number, which happens very >> soon, relatively, for the immortal being trying to keep track of their >> birthday. >> >> Immortality is when you are to old to be able to even name your age. >> After that, you have always the same age. >> >> >> Nice aphorisms. But irrelevant. The question is why don't we see almost >> everyone else as younger? >> >> >> That happens when we are not old enough, but also, we might always >> backtrack to younger people when close to death or when dying, … >> >> >> What utter nonsense. You cannot jump between Everett branches, so you >> cannot jump to a branch in which you were young. >> >> Depends on what you mean by "you". >> > > I mean the person who has lived on this branch since birth. In every other > branch in which copies exist, they occupy that space. So you can't simply > "become" one of those copies on another branch -- what would happen to the > one that was there? So you do not transfer memories or anything like. And > you certainly can't become a younger copy of yourself. > You can "jump" to any entity that is a continuation of your current mental state, even if there is no causal connection. Having a persistent human body that is in good shape is means of ensuring that such entities exist. There is no actual "jumping", of course, even in ordinary life; it is just an illusion. -- Stathis Papaioannou <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- 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%3D2ypWG67rb9qvMgt7XV%3Dvv6Gy%3D-Nwb%2B9T5Jjnu_gcrP0zpFw%40mail.gmail.com.
