Re: Many worlds theory of immortality

2005-05-04 Thread Russell Standish
Reading your responses here, I don't think we have much to disagree on. Like you, I don't need a concrete universe, with concrete time etc. It was largely your thesis that convinced me of that. Perhaps you confuse me with Schmidhuber too much ! I wouldn't say that time is illusionary. Illusionary

Re: Many worlds theory of immortality

2005-05-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 4 May 2005 Russell Standish wrote: On this list, we seem to have two fairly clear camps: those who identify observer moments as the fundamental concept, and those who regard relationships between observer moments with equal ontological status. With my TIME postulate, I say that a conscious

Re: Many worlds theory of immortality

2005-05-04 Thread Hal Finney
I would add another point with regard to observer-moments and continuity: probably there is no unique next or previous relationship among observer-moments. The case of non-unique next observer-moments is uncontroversial, as it relates to the universe splitting predicted by the MWI or the