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

2008-12-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/12/30 kla...@bkpsecurity.com : > Lets assume, that Alice who believes in QI wants a certain probable > event to happen, for instance win 1,000,000 in a casino. Alice then > comes to a casino with a loaded gun and promises to herself, that she > will kill herself if she does not win 1,000,000

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

2008-12-29 Thread Brent Meeker
kla...@bkpsecurity.com wrote: > If Quantum Immortality (QI) is true, then we can ask the question what > is the TYPICAL history for an "immortal". The typical history (or the > typical time/space trajectory) would be the path most of the immortals > take (and remember that in QI all of us are immo