Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 01-nov.-05, à 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bruno, So why is it that from the 3rd person point of view everyone dies? Because incompleteness in its 3-person "probabilistic" meaning is that: IF you are alive THEN there is a non negligible probability that you will die. This means

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: I believe that the quantum theory does not allow cul-de-sac branches. I also believe that the Godel-Lob theory of self-reference not only allow cul-de-sac branches, but it imposes them everywhere: from all alive states you can reach a dead end. The Universal Dovetailer Ar

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread daddycaylor
I should have said "a countable set of countable histories". Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:05:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide) Bruno,    So why

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread daddycaylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Everything-List List Sent: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:27:27 +0100 Subject: Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide) Le 28-oct.-05, à 17:54, GottferDamnt a écrit (for-list):    Hi,    I would like talk about this quote from an old topic:      This is a rather shocking conclu

Re: Quantum Immortality (was Re: Quantum Suicide)

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 28-oct.-05, à 17:54, GottferDamnt a écrit (for-list): Hi, I would like talk about this quote from an old topic: This is a rather shocking conclusion. We are conscious here and now because our (computational state) belongs to aleph_1 (or 2^aleph_0 for those who doesn't want to rely on Ca