RE: Quantum Immortality - the principle of the least improbability/influencing things

2008-12-29 Thread Jan Harms
Why shouldn't a more natural process prevent Alice from doing this experiment with the lottery? Something far more probable than winning the million which does not let this quantum trick happen? This would be similar to the reasoning you applied to the quantum suicide. It could be much more probab

Re: multiverse talk

2008-07-07 Thread Jan Harms
Hello Brent, perhaps one remark concerning your understanding of "einselection". Please correct me if I am wrong here, but einselection - which is as you say related to decoherence - is not selecting one state out of a superposition of states, but selecting a certain basis in a Hilbert space.

Re: multiverse talk

2008-07-07 Thread Jan Harms
Please substitute in my last post: "this does stay in conflict" by "this does NOT stay in conflict"!! Jan Harms schrieb: > Hello Brent, > > perhaps one remark concerning your understanding of "einselection". > Please correct me if I am wrong here,

QM locality

2004-07-15 Thread Jan Harms
Dear Bruno, Dear All   A few days ago, I was reading one of your (Bruno's) papers (I think it was "Computation, Consciousness and the Quantum"). You wrote that not only the apparent QM randomness is removed by the MWI (this point I understand) but also that QM becomes local if one accepts th

Re: ... cosmology? KNIGHT & KNAVE

2004-07-23 Thread Jan Harms
> (problem 4)> You get a native, and asks her if Santa Claus exists.> The native answers this:  "If I am a knight then Santa Claus exists"> What can you deduce about the native, and about Santa Claus?Lets give a name to the sentence:S="If I am a knight then Santa Claus exists"1. If t