>Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
>Nick Bostrom, Routledge, New York, July 2002
Sorry about the sluggish response time - in fact it suggests the answer to
Wei's question: because of time pressures, I've been able to read this list
only very s
Wei Dai wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:13:22AM +0000, Nick Bostrom wrote:
> > Only if you believe in the many-worlds interpretation. A believer in
> > the MWI will have to add the idea of a measure, and say:"I will
> > observe X" with amplitude psi(x
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Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics
atural to say that the first time you awoke, you were right
and the second time you were wrong. Suppose a little later you look at the
clock and it says "8:01". Mightn't you then say to yourself "Gee! When just
a second ago I just thought it was 7 I was badly mistaken!"
Nick Bostrom
Department of Philosophy, Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520 | Phone: (203) 432-1663 | Fax: (203) 432-7950
Homepage: http://www.nickbostrom.com
hind it, I refer you to my forthcoming book Anthropic
Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy,
Routledge, New York, April 2002. I have made five sample chapters (as
many as the publisher would permit) available at
http://www.anthropic-principle.com/book/.
Nick Bostrom
Dep
iving in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
Nick Bostrom
Department of Philosophy, Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520 | Phone: (203) 432-1663 | Fax: (203) 432-7950
Homepage: http://www.nickbostrom.com
one could
ask whether there is a fact of the matter whether my current
observer-moment is simulated or material. And the answer would be the same,
that the hypothesis considered refers indexically to its token implementation.
Nick Bostrom
Department of Philosophy, Yale University
New Haven
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