Convince me of this fact, and I would readily reject QTI. What you say
would be disproof of the cul-de-sac assumption, which sadly I
suspect to be true except in rather extreme circumstances like black
holes.
Nevertheless, if you can construct a situation using forbidden
states where conscious
Fred Chen wrote:
Hal, Charles, I think this is an unavoidable part of the QTI or FIN debate.
It seems that with QTI, you could only be entering white rabbit
(magical-type) universes, not continue in probable ones.
But in general I have a more fundamental objection (to quantum
immortality).
In
September 2001 2:32 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FIN too
From: Charles Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um, OK, I don't want to get into an infinite argument here.
I guess we both
understand the other's viewpoint. (For the record: I don't
see any reason
to accept QTI as correct, but think
as a
severed head, or . . . what??? Just curious!
Charles
-Original Message-
From: Charles Goodwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2001 1:42 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FIN too
Um, OK, I don't want to get into an infinite argument here. I
guess we
From: Charles Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um, OK, I don't want to get into an infinite argument here. I guess we both
understand the other's viewpoint. (For the record: I don't see any reason
to accept QTI as correct, but think that *if* it is, it would fit in with
the available (subjective)
-Original Message-
From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
This case bothers me too. The initial (or perhaps traditional)
response is that consciousness is lost the instant blood pressure
drops in the brain, a few hundred milliseconds after the neck is
severed, thus the
Charles Goodwin wrote:
Another question is what happens in cases of very violent death, e.g. beheading.
After someone's head is cut off, so they say, it
remains conscious for a few seconds (I can't see why it wouldn't). According to QTI
it experiences being decapitated but then
survives
Charles Goodwin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
Another question is what happens in cases of very violent death,
e.g. beheading. After someone's head is cut off, so they say, it remains
conscious for a few seconds (I can't see why it wouldn't). According to
QTI it experiences being decapitated
From: Charles Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Jacques Mallah wrote]
But there's one exception: your brain can only hold a limited amount
of information. So it's possible to be too old to remember how old you
are. *Only if you are that old, do you have a right to not reject FIN on
these
Jacques Mallah wrote:
It's nice that you reject FIN! Of course, those who support it can give
(and have given) no reason ...
Surely this is an exageration. I recall that I am still waiting for
you showing a flaw in the UDA (the Joel version).
But here you betraye yourself:
... since
From: Charles Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you can't apply any sort of statistical argument to your own experience
unless you assume that you're a typical observer. But if you do that you're
just assuming the result you want.
Not so. You don't assume you're typical exactly, just that you are
From: Charles Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have just joined this list after seeing it mentioned on the Fabric of
Reality list
Hi. BTW, what's up on the FOR list? Ever see anything interesting
there? I thought the book sucked except for chapter 2 (I think; the one
explaining the
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