On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 5:25 PM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:\
> *> It's a thought experiment. You are duplicated in two separate places, A > and B, and the two copies can never meet, what is your expectation of > finding yourself in A or B?* > No. It's not a thought experiment, it's not an experiment of any sort because even after it's all completed nobody has learned anything because nobody has any idea who saw city A and who saw city B; "you" has been duplicated and thus "you" saw A and "you" saw B, and the question asked is "what one and only one city will "you" end up seeing after "you" is duplicated and becomes two?" has no answer because it is nonsensical . > This is equivalent to what happens when the world split according to MWI. > No it is not equivalent. In the Many Worlds case the two people are clearly labeled, one of them is observable and the other is not. In the people duplicating machine case the only difference between the two people is one saw A and one saw B, so the only possible answer to the question "which one saw A" is "the one that saw A" because that's the only label there is to differentiate the two people. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> q96 > > -- 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/CAJPayv353DeeJoSrT9WY%2BoWg3uHZEnX-MhmyTtmLL8%2BwpJWWmg%40mail.gmail.com.
