Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread daddycaylor
Jesse wrote: Tom Caylor wrote:    The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets could just as easily be  explained in a single universe.     I short-changed my argument. I should've said, "The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets can only be explained in a single universe."     Tom Caylo

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread Jesse Mazer
Tom Caylor wrote: The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets could just as easily be explained in a single universe.  I short-changed my argument. I should've said, "The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets can only be explained in a single universe."   Tom Caylor  If you don't a

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread daddycaylor
The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets could just as easily be explained in a single universe.  I short-changed my argument. I should've said, "The reason why you don't buy lottery tickets can only be explained in a single universe."   Tom Caylor 

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: we are "conscious" only because we belong to a continuum of infinite never ending stories ... ...that's what the lobian machine's "guardian angel" G* says about that: true and strictly unbelievable. Bruno Since you agree that the number of histories is on a continuum, y

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno wrote: Le 12-déc.-05, à 18:07, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit :   ... In the Plenitude, everything washes out to zero. And Bruno, I would even say that all consistent histories wash out to zero.    I am not sure why you say this.  See below.   It's interesting that symmetry (Bruno's re

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread daddycaylor
Stathis wrote: Tom Caylor writes:    In response to Stathis' thought experiment, to speak of an experiment being "set up" in a certain way is to base probabilities on an "irrelevant" subset of the whole, at least if the multiverse hypothesis is true. In the Plenitude, there are an additiona

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 12-déc.-05, à 18:07, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit : In response to Stathis' thought experiment, to speak of an experiment being "set up" in a certain way is to base probabilities on an "irrelevant" subset of the whole, at least if the multiverse hypothesis is true. In the Plenitude, t

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 12-déc.-05, à 19:37, George Levy a écrit : Stathis Papaioannou wrote: In addition to the above arguments, consider the problem from the point of view of the subject. If multiple copies of a person are created and run in parallel for a period, what difference does this make to his expe

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 13-déc.-05, à 02:07, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : From the third person perspective, the annihilation of the 10^100 copies could be seen as 10^100 dead ends. (In fact, when I originally proposed this experiment, Hal Finney thought it represented the ultimate in mass murder.) If I were one

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Tom Caylor writes: In response to Stathis' thought experiment, to speak of an experiment being "set up" in a certain way is to base probabilities on an "irrelevant" subset of the whole, at least if the multiverse hypothesis is true. In the Plenitude, there are an additional 10^100 copies stil

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
From the third person perspective, the annihilation of the 10^100 copies could be seen as 10^100 dead ends. (In fact, when I originally proposed this experiment, Hal Finney thought it represented the ultimate in mass murder.) If I were one of the 10^100, however, I wouldn't be worried in the sli

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-12 Thread George Levy
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: In addition to the above arguments, consider the problem from the point of view of the subject. If multiple copies of a person are created and run in parallel for a period, what difference does this make to his experience? It seems to me that there is no test or ex

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-12 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno wrote: Le 11-déc.-05, à 11:58, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :    You find yourself alone in a room with a light that alternates red/green with a period of one minute. A letter in the room informs you that every other minute, 10^100 copies of you are created and run in parallel for one minut

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-déc.-05, à 11:58, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : You find yourself alone in a room with a light that alternates red/green with a period of one minute. A letter in the room informs you that every other minute, 10^100 copies of you are created and run in parallel for one minute, then shut

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 10-déc.-05, à 13:24, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : In addition to the above arguments, consider the problem from the point of view of the subject. If multiple copies of a person are created and run in parallel for a period, what difference does this make to his experi

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 09-déc.-05, à 22:44, George Levy a écrit : The crux of the matter is the concept of indistinguishability: whether you consider two identical persons (OMs) occupying two identical universes the same person (point on the road). It is clear that if you consider the problem from the information an

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-déc.-05, à 13:24, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : In addition to the above arguments, consider the problem from the point of view of the subject. If multiple copies of a person are created and run in parallel for a period, what difference does this make to his experience? It seems to me t

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
George Levy writes: Hi Quentin, Stathis, Bruno It all depends how you see the plenitude, OMs and the branching. Is consciousness like a traveller in a network of roads traversing the plenitude, some roads branching some roads merging? If yes then you could have several independent conscious

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-09 Thread George Levy
Hi Quentin, Stathis, Bruno Quentin Anciaux wrote: Hi Georges, if you start from OMs as basic, then a branch is a set of OMs (only "consistent"/ordered set ?). Then it means a branch is unique. Some part of different branches could overlap, but as I don't understand what could be an abs

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-déc.-05, à 22:21, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 05-déc.-05, à 02:46, Saibal Mitra a écrit : I still think that if you double everything and then annihilate only the doubled person, the probability will be 1. Actually I agree with this. So far we have been talking ab

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow (was off-list)

2005-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi (again) Brent, So Brent you were right, if I understood you correctly, in quantum logic the negation can be interpreted as an orthogonality relations classifying alternative results of an experiment. The vectors of the base corresponds to the observables under scrutiny. Le 09-déc.-05, à

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow (was off-list)

2005-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Brent, This is perhaps a slightly more advanced answer relatively to the current thread, so don't be astonished if you don't get the end, I should recall the notion of "theory" before. My current conversation with Stathis is based directly on the "multiverse (Kripke) semantics", but I stil

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
George Levy writes: So far we have been talking about splitting universes and people. Let's consider the case where two branches of the universe merge. In other words, two different paths eventually happen to become identical - Of course when this happens all their branching futures also becom

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Georges, if you start from OMs as basic, then a branch is a set of OMs (only "consistent"/ordered set ?). Then it means a branch is unique. Some part of different branches could overlap, but as I don't understand what could be an absolute measure (meaning it never change and is fixed foreve

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-08 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 05-déc.-05, à 02:46, Saibal Mitra a écrit : I still think that if you double everything and then annihilate only the doubled person, the probability will be 1. Actually I agree with this. So far we have been talking about spli

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow (was off-list)

2005-12-07 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: ... What could this mean in a real world example? Take W as the set of places in Brussels. Take R to be "accessible by walking in a finite number of foot steps". Then each places at Brussels is accessible from itself, giving that you can access it with zero steps, or

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow (was off-list)

2005-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stathis, Hi Bruno, I replied to the first part of your post earlier, but it took a bit more time to digest the rest. For what it is worth, I have included my "thinking out loud" below. Thanks for replying, and thanks for authorizing me to comment online. Mhh I know

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 03-déc.-05, à 11:12, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: Le 01-déc.-05, à 07:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Why does an OM need to contain so much information to link it to other OMs making up a person? [the complete message is below]. I am not sure I understand. A

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-déc.-05, à 02:46, Saibal Mitra a écrit : I still think that if you double everything and then annihilate only the doubled person, the probability will be 1. Actually I agree with this. This is simply a consequence of using the absolute measure. Ah ? I am not sure this makes

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-déc.-05, à 22:49, Russell Standish a écrit : On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:58:20PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: Well at least this isn't a problem of translation. But I still have difficulty in understanding why Pp=Bp & -B-p should be translated into English as "to bet on p" (or for tha

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:58:20PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > >Well at least this isn't a problem of translation. But I still have > >difficulty in understanding why Pp=Bp & -B-p should be translated into > >English as "to bet on p" (or for that matter pourquoi on devrait > >le traduire par

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 03-déc.-05, à 11:06, Russell Standish a écrit : On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:39:58PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: Observation is implicitly defined here by measurement capable of selecting alternatives on which we are able to bet (or to gamble ?). The french word is "parier". Well at least

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
I'm perhaps missing something here. In a no-collapse interpretation of QM, doesn't "everything double" every moment? So, if only one of the doubled versions of a person is annihilated, doesn't this mean the probability of survival is 1? Although the plenitude is timeless, containing all poss

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-04 Thread Saibal Mitra
age - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 05:32 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > > There is, of course, a diff

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
have many outcomes, all leading to death except one, the probability of experiencing that branch is very small. - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:38 AM Subject:

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Brent Meeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Saibal Mitra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 03:06 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > Saibal Mitra wrote: > > - Original Messag

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
have many outcomes, all leading to death except one, the probability of experiencing that branch is very small. - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:38 AM Subject:

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Well, I did actually intend my example to be analogous to the Tegmark QS experiment. Are you saying that if there is only one world and magically an identical, separate world comes into being this is fundamentally different to what happens in quantum branch splitting? It seems to me that in both

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 01-déc.-05, à 07:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Why does an OM need to contain so much information to link it to other OMs making up a person? [the complete message is below]. I am not sure I understand. Are you saying, like Saibal Mitra, that OMs (Observer-Mom

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:39:58PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Observation is implicitly defined here by measurement capable of > selecting alternatives on which we are able to bet (or to gamble ?). > The french word is "parier". > Well at least this isn't a problem of translation. But I stil

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Saibal, Le Samedi 3 Décembre 2005 02:15, Saibal Mitra a écrit : > Correction, I seem to have misunderstood Statis' set up. If you really > create a new world and then create and kill the person there then the > probability of survival is 1. This is different from quantum mechanical > branch sp

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread George Levy
Saibal Mitra wrote: Correction, I seem to have misunderstood Statis' set up. If you really create a new world and then create and kill the person there then the probability of survival is 1. This is different from quantum mechanical branch splitting. To see this, consider first what would

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
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Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Saibal Mitra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jesse Mazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 04:47 P

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 10:02 PM Subject: RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > > Saibal wrote: > > > > The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with >

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Brent Meeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 07:41 PM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > Saibal Mitra wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jonatha

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 01-déc.-05, à 07:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Why does an OM need to contain so much information to link it to other OMs making up a person? [the complete message is below]. I am not sure I understand. Are you saying, like Saibal Mitra, that OMs (Observer-Moments) are not related?

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Why does an OM need to contain so much information to link it to other OMs making up a person? I certainly don't spend every waking moment reminding myself of who I am, let alone going over my entire past history, and I still think all my thoughts are my thoughts. I don't think that the fact t

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
An observer a1 at time t1 undergoes destructive scanning, and two exact copies, observers a2 and a3, are created. If we ask a2 and a3, they will each claim to remember "being" a1. We could say that as a result of the duplication we have two people, a1a2 and a1a3, each with equal claim to have

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Saibal Mitra writes: The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some states can be more ''real'' than other st

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-nov.-05, à 02:25, Saibal Mitra a écrit : The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some states can

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-nov.-05, à 02:18, Kim Jones a écrit : The search for a "consistent meaning to life" is then the search for certainty about that pattern one recognises as the 1st person experience, or the self. I assume that this is not so much for confirmation of solipsism but for the knowledge that ou

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-nov.-05, à 00:07, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : Why are we looking for a consistent meaning of our own life ? What would be an inconsistent meaning? (i'm just trying to figure out what you ask) Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: [quoting Saibal Mitra] There exists an observer moment representing you at N seconds, at N + 4 seconds and at all possible other states. They all ''just exist'' in the plenitude, as Stathis wrote. The OM representing you at N + 4 has the memory

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: [quoting Saibal Mitra] There exists an observer moment representing you at N seconds, at N + 4 seconds and at all possible other states. They all ''just exist'' in the plenitude, as Stathis wrote. The OM representing you at N + 4 has the memory of being the OM at N. This

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
I agree with everything Jesse says here. Stathis Papaioannou Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I was thinking of people who accept some ensemble theory such as MWI, but don't believe in QTI. I must admit, I find it difficult to understand how even a dualist might justify (a) as being correct. Would

RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Jonathan Colvin
Saibal wrote: > > > The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with > > > Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer > > > moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. > > > they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some > > > states can be more

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Saibal Mitra wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 05:49 AM Subject: RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow Saibal wrote: The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with Jesse), al

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 05:49 AM Subject: RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > Saibal wrote: > > The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with > > Jesse), al

RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jonathan Colvin writes: Saibal wrote: > The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with > Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer > moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. > they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some > states can be

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Saibal Mitra writes: The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some states can be more ''real'' than other s

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread George Levy
Please disregard previous post. The b and c cases were inverted. Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Stathis Papaioannou writes: If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I am instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are several possible ways this m

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread George Levy
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Stathis Papaioannou writes: If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I am instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are several possible ways this might be interpreted from the 1st person viewpoint: (a) Pr(I live

RE: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Jonathan Colvin
Saibal wrote: > The answer must be a) because (and here I disagree with > Jesse), all that exists is an ensemble of isolated observer > moments. The future, the past, alternative histories, etc. > they all exist in a symmetrical way. It don't see how some > states can be more ''real'' than o

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
aving done the experiment were wiped out form your memory. - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow > >

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 27/11/2005, at 10:07 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: While I agree it is quite of topic.. this is something that I got lot of interest into. Why are we looking for a consistent meaning of our own life ? Quentin How can anything be off-topic on a list calling itself "Everything"? ;

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le Samedi 26 Novembre 2005 18:47, Jesse Mazer a écrit : Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >I was thinking of people who accept some ensemble theory such as MWI, but >don't believe in QTI. I must admit, I find it difficult to understand how >even a dualist might justify (a) as being correct. Would anyon

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I was thinking of people who accept some ensemble theory such as MWI, but don't believe in QTI. I must admit, I find it difficult to understand how even a dualist might justify (a) as being correct. Would anyone care to help? What do you think of my argument here?

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Stathis Papaioannou writes: If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I am instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are several possible ways this might be interpreted from the 1st person viewpoint: (a) Pr(I live) = Pr(I die) = 0.5 (b) Pr(I

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 25-nov.-05, à 01:10, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I am instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are several possible ways this might be interpreted from the 1st person view

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: If on the basis of a coin toss the world splits, and in one branch I am instantaneously killed while in the other I continue living, there are several possible ways this might be interpreted from the 1st person viewpoint: (a) Pr(I live) = Pr(I die) = 0.5 I hope every

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 24-nov.-05, à 08:52, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: The main idea of Kripke has consisted in saying that the modal formula Bp (also written []p) is true at world a, if p is true in all the worlds you can access from a. p is relatively necessary at a. For example, if t

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: The main idea of Kripke has consisted in saying that the modal formula Bp (also written []p) is true at world a, if p is true in all the worlds you can access from a. p is relatively necessary at a. For example, if the world are countries and if you have to pay taxes in al

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 19-nov.-05, à 22:56, Russell Standish a écrit : On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:22:58PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: Now observation and knowledge are defined in the logics of self-reference, i.e. by transformation of G and G*, and so are each multiplied by two. Actually and amazingly for the kn

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:22:58PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Now observation and knowledge are defined in the logics of > self-reference, i.e. by transformation of G and G*, and so are each > multiplied by two. Actually and amazingly for the knower (the first > person) G and G* give the same

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 18-nov.-05, à 20:39, Stephen Paul King a écrit : Dear Bruno, Are you claiming that the communicable part is to the non-communicable part as the classical is to the quantum? Oops, no, sorry. My fault. I was trying to be short. You can see Godel, Lob, Solovay discovery as the discove

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Everything-List List" Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:03 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow snip Well, actually I hope it will gives the qubits. I am not contesting the

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 17-nov.-05, à 12:40, Brian Scurfield concluded : OK, I see what you are getting at here, but as you pointed out later in your post the problem is that "junk" can be consistent! You want to "throw away" the junk by showing it has zero measure without a-priori assuming some kind of casual str

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 15-nov.-05, à 10:56, Brian Scurfield a écrit : --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has often been pointed out on this list that universes are those parts of the multiverse down which information flows. So Harry Potter "universes" are not in fact universes

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-nov.-05, à 05:45, Brian Scurfield a écrit (for-list): Bruno - To summarise, the quantum theory of immortality arises from the following considerations: 1. You cannot distinguish among all your identical first-person observer moments. 2. From a first-person perspective, you cannot exper

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 01-nov.-05, à 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bruno, So why is it that from the 3rd person point of view everyone dies? Because incompleteness in its 3-person "probabilistic" meaning is that: IF you are alive THEN there is a non negligible probability that you will die. This means

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: I believe that the quantum theory does not allow cul-de-sac branches. I also believe that the Godel-Lob theory of self-reference not only allow cul-de-sac branches, but it imposes them everywhere: from all alive states you can reach a dead end. The Universal Dovetailer Ar

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread daddycaylor
I should have said "a countable set of countable histories". Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:05:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide) Bruno,    So why

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread daddycaylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Everything-List List Sent: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:27:27 +0100 Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide) Le 28-oct.-05, à 17:54, GottferDamnt a écrit (for-list):    Hi,    I would like talk about this quote from an old topic:      This is a rather shocking conclu

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 28-oct.-05, à 17:54, GottferDamnt a écrit (for-list): Hi, I would like talk about this quote from an old topic: This is a rather shocking conclusion. We are conscious here and now because our (computational state) belongs to aleph_1 (or 2^aleph_0 for those who doesn't want to rely on Ca

Re: "Quantum immortality" - pragmatics again.

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Hawthorne
All this talk of quantum immortality seems like anthropocentric wishful thinking to me. You are a process. All physical objects are best understood as slow processes. A life process is a very complex physical pattern, which is an arrangement of matter and energy in space-time, that has propert

Re: Quantum Immortality

2003-06-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 10:14 12/06/03 -0400, Charles wrote: What is this thing called consciousness, anyway? It could be the unconscious, instinctive, automatic, abductive inference of some consistent sets of "neighborhood-histories". It is related to some high level description of ourselves relatively to what w

Re: quantum immortality

2001-06-08 Thread Brent Meeker
On 08-Jun-01, Russell Standish wrote: > Saibal Mitra wrote: >> I would go even further: The person I was when I was 3 years old is >> dead. He died because too much new information was added to his >> brain. >> > > This view would align you with Jacques Mallah and James Higgo with > their "obse

Re: quantum immortality

2001-06-08 Thread Russell Standish
Saibal Mitra wrote: > > Yes, you can save the ``conventional´´ quantum immortality theorem by > extending the definition of a person, but is a person with an astronomical > amount of data stored in his brain plus all of my memory really me? I would > say not. > If that person remembers being yo

Re: quantum immortality

2001-06-08 Thread Saibal Mitra
Yes, you can save the ``conventional´´ quantum immortality theorem by extending the definition of a person, but is a person with an astronomical amount of data stored in his brain plus all of my memory really me? I would say not. I would go even further: The person I was when I was 3 years old is

RE: Quantum Immortality = deadly important

1998-12-09 Thread Higgo James
h implies. In all events, you should invest for universes where you are alive, rather than dead, unless you care about other people. > -Original Message- > From: Wei Dai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 December 1998 09:50 > To: Higgo James; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' &

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