Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:22:23AM +0200, Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > First off, how is it that the MWI does not imply > >quantum immortality? > > MWI is just quantum mechanics without the wavefunction collapse postulate. > This then implies that after a measurement your wavefuntion will be in a >

Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:24:12PM -0700, nichomachus wrote: > Hi, Russell, > > Surely the framework of the Many Worlds interpretation would say that > the likelyhood of measuring a quantum observable in state A rather > than B reflects the number of histories in which the observable is > measure