Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
George Levy writes: Hi Quentin, Stathis, Bruno It all depends how you see the plenitude, OMs and the branching. Is consciousness like a traveller in a network of roads traversing the plenitude, some roads branching some roads merging? If yes then you could have several independent

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-déc.-05, à 13:24, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : In addition to the above arguments, consider the problem from the point of view of the subject. If multiple copies of a person are created and run in parallel for a period, what difference does this make to his experience? It seems to me

Re: Quantum Immortality and Information Flow

2005-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 09-déc.-05, à 22:44, George Levy a écrit : The crux of the matter is the concept of indistinguishability: whether you consider two identical persons (OMs) occupying two identical universes the same person (point on the road). It is clear that if you consider the problem from the information