Why wasn't I born there instead of here?

2007-11-17 Thread Gene Ledbetter
In another thread Rolf mentioned a variant of the Doomsday Argument where the universe is infinite: ...This variant DA asks, if there's currently a Galactic Empire 1 Hubble Volumes away with an immensely large number of people, why wasn't I born there instead of here? The

Re: Why wasn't I born there instead of here?

2007-11-17 Thread Jason Resch
Gene, I appreciate the logic you employed in answering this question. Q asking Why was I born here? is more or less equivalent to asking Why am I Q?. In this case however Q is ignoring the fact that it is Q's brain pondering the question and therefore Q's brain that will also be experiencing

Re: Why wasn't I born there instead of here?

2007-11-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18/11/2007, Gene Ledbetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread Rolf mentioned a variant of the Doomsday Argument where the universe is infinite: ...This variant DA asks, if there's currently a Galactic Empire 1 Hubble Volumes away with an immensely large number of people, why