> On 6 Apr 2020, at 19:45, smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > > When we dream we can experience nonsensical things that we usually only > recognize as nonsensical when we are awake. The state of consciousness during > a dream should therefore be consistent with a wide range of different > versions of me in the multiverse. These different versions will have slightly > different experiences that can cause exactly the same reduced consciousness > during a dream. This merger of inexact copies will then cause unlikely chance > events to be erased. So, if I've won the lottery and go to sleep, I should > expect to wake up as the version of me who didn't win the lottery.
It seems to me that with this reasoning we should expect to wake up as a bacteria, if not the “virgin” universal machine itself, and sleeping might be irrelevant. Then we can expect to go to heaven, or hell, at any times. I am still unable to interview the machine on the experience of duplication: MW_2 (say) where we are duplicate in three exemplars, one in Moscow, and two strictly identical in Washington (better to be thought as being virtual to assure perfect numerical identities). Most people agree that if the two copies in Washington differ we get P(M) = 1/3, but what if they don’t? Should it be 1/2? The mathematics of self-reference is not yet advanced enough to answer this. That’s the problem when we extract everything from the machine’s theory of self-reference, but it is the only way to keep clearly the difference between the quanta and the qualia. The existence of the measure is (plausibly) provable in ZF + some large cardinal axiom. But the actual computation of that measure might remain for long intractable. It could be quantum-tractable only. As far as I know, your reasoning could correct. Our "limit life” would be abnormal normal, but that might converge to the life of bacteria … What you say is a consequence of your idea of near death backtracking. Possible, but a quite open problem to me. The answer is in qG* and its variants, though, but that is not (yet) tractable. Bruno > > Saibal > > -- > 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/e2e9d1fe1430d5f457b50660dd5f4976%40zonnet.nl. -- 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/658A66FF-9031-4251-A15D-03C2D8C29B16%40ulb.ac.be.
