Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread jamikes
Dear Saibal, you misunderstood my post. I did not ask about "technicalities" of your sci-fi, I simply suggested that you may not "play" to get from here to there, but are "here" by a play from "over there". Simply humor, nothing else. John I don't see why one would want to go back,

Re: Error in "Refinements to my model" try it again

2001-12-24 Thread H J Ruhl
A correction to my model corrected: Near the end it should say: >Evolving universes must be isomorphic to a portion of one of these successive manifest counterfactuals. It is not required that a particular universe always be isomorphic the counterfactual at a given level of the nesting. Su

Re: Error in "Refinements to my model"

2001-12-24 Thread H J Ruhl
A correction to my model: Near the end it should say: >Evolving universes must be isomorphic to a portion of one of these successive manifest counterfactuals. It is not required that it always be the same one. > The nesting would allow an infinite number of such universes. Hal

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
I don't see why one would want to go back, but there are still copies left in ordinary universes, there are universes in which the probability to win will return to normal after a while. One should thus be able to go back using a suicide machine. Also one could use memory erasure to go back

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
Some people will sell one of their kidneys for just a few thousand dollars. If I were a multi-multi-multi-billionaire I should be able to buy a kidney for me after the operation. George Levy wrote: > > > > Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > > Suppose that every week I subject myself to a suicide experimen

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
I had the set of all possible universes in mind. But, as I wrote earlier (in August), the set of all possible universes is contained in the MWI. The reason is that there is a nonzero probability that you are be simulated by a computer. This computer could run any program. Saibal Charles Goodwin