From: Norman Samish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Implications of MWI
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:30:31 -0700
Jonathan,
If it is true that In infinite time and infinite space, whatever can
happen, must happen, not only once but an infinite
Le 27-avr.-05, à 23:30, Mark Fancey a écrit :
I am taking this from the saying:
'everything that can happen does happen and is happening
right now'
Right, but only with a measure relative to your actual state. It would
be absurd
not to drink coffee when you want it under the pretext
I will suppose the message of Russell was for the list, and forward it
(without the attachment :).
Russell, dont hesitate to tell me where are you stuck in UDA. Same
question for Hal Finney.
A summary of UDA:
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004Slide.pdf
Explanation can
Hi Stephen,
You wrote:
snip ... (I am ignoring my own allergy to the idea that 1st
person aspects
can be faithfully represented by Turing algorithms.) ...
I take the opportunity of that statement to insist on a key point which
is admittedly not obvious.
The fact is that I am also
Rather the same for me. QTI or just compi makes disappear the fear of
death ... only to (re)discover that the real fear is the fear of life
... (and of course this makes immortality a rather bad new ...).
But also, I have no certainties at all, and such mood/feeling is driven
much more by
Jesse, thanks for the explanation you gave to Norman. I did not want to ask
something similar, so I benefit from it as well.
My question however is a more fundamental one:
why are we stuck in a MWI or its infinitely expanded format, where qualia,
systems, functions, ideation, whatever are
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:00:10PM -0400, John M wrote:
Jesse, thanks for the explanation you gave to Norman. I did not want to ask
something similar, so I benefit from it as well.
My question however is a more fundamental one:
why are we stuck in a MWI or its infinitely expanded format,
Norman Samish writes:
Jonathan,
If it is true that In infinite time and infinite space, whatever can
happen, must happen, not only once but an infinite number of times, then
what does probability mean? In your example below, there must be an
infinity of worlds where Colin Powell is
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