On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 09:57, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > In MWI, one person saw the atom decay and the other did not. They are not observable to each other, but they observe themselves, obviously. -- 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%3D2ypW9wBUgtoXOFkcBv48XkpgD8Tu%2BdM_dsT_v6Qw5c4PFvQ%40mail.gmail.com.
