Re: QTI --- Expanding brains

2008-04-20 Thread Günther Greindl
Your identity must be preserved as your brain continues to expand to make room for all that informaton that must be stored. Now, I find it hard to Why should all the info be stored/your id. be preserved? We constantly forget stuff - as you get older and older, you will forget past stuff, so

Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-20 Thread Alastair Malcolm
- Original Message - From: Günther Greindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law Dear Nichomachus, decision. If she measures the particle's spin as positive, she will elect to switch cases,

Re: QTI --- Expanding brains

2008-04-20 Thread Tom Caylor
On Apr 20, 3:00 am, Günther Greindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your identity must be preserved as your brain continues to expand to make room for all that informaton that must be stored. Now, I find it hard to Why should all the info be stored/your id. be preserved? We constantly forget

Re: QTI --- Expanding brains

2008-04-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 01:20:21PM -0700, Tom Caylor wrote: Except that the evidence seems to support that our past is also recorded in a reality out there that seems independent of our brains. For example when we are reminded of something from our past, from looking at old photos, or from

Re: On Russell's Derivation of Quantum Mechanics

2008-04-20 Thread Russell Standish
Hi Youness, Thanks for this, it is very impressive. You have gone into this in far more depth than the referees of the Why Occams Razor paper. I will respond to this soon, but rather than shoot from the hip, I'll take some time to respond thoughtfully. As for not proclaiming scientific

Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-20 Thread Brent Meeker
Alastair Malcolm wrote: - Original Message - From: Günther Greindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law Dear Nichomachus, decision. If she measures the particle's spin as positive, she

Re: QTI --- Expanding brains

2008-04-20 Thread Brent Meeker
Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 01:20:21PM -0700, Tom Caylor wrote: Except that the evidence seems to support that our past is also recorded in a reality out there that seems independent of our brains. For example when we are reminded of something from our past, from looking

Re: QTI --- Expanding brains

2008-04-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 08:25:56PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: Does that mean that if I don't remember it, it didn't happen? No it means it did/didn't happen until such a time as a measurement indicates which. When it does, there will be two of you in different Multiverse branches, one in