On 2/28/2022 12:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:
On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 2:48:48 PM UTC+1 Jason wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:43 AM Tomas Pales <litew...@gmail.com> wrote:
Since reality is a mess of everything possible we might expect
that the regularities (laws) of our world may change or
disappear any second, which apparently doesn't happen.
Or you don't remember it happening:
"When we die, the rules surely change. As our brains and bodies
cease to function in the normal way, it takes greater and greater
contrivances and coincidences to explain continuing consciousness
by their operation. We lose our ties to physical reality, but, in
the space of all possible worlds, that cannot be the end. Our
consciousness continues to exist in some of those, and we will
always find ourselves in worlds where we exist and never in ones
where we don’t. The nature of the next simplest world that can
host us, after we abandon physical law, I cannot guess."
-- Hans Moravec in “Simulation, Consciousness, Existence” (1998)
https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html
I am not sure that my consciousness would continue to exist in a
different world after it ended in this one. A copy of me might
continue in another world but it wouldn't be me, just someone who
looks like me and has the same history as me until the point of my death.
If it had the same memories as you wouldn't it be you? And would it be
insane you if those memories were inconsistent with the history of the
world you found yourself in? And among all logically possible worlds
(which you think exist) aren't worlds like that in which your memories
and the recorded history in the world are inconsistent, infinitely more
numerous than those in which they are consistent?
Have you read Robert Wilson's "Divided by Infinity". It's a short
story: https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
Brent
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