Re: Simple question

2012-05-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:24 PM, alexalex wrote: > Taking the qunatum immortality  argument as a fact what do you think > about the following implication? > > If you'll be conscious only in those universes where you'll keep on > living then most surely you'll watch all your brothers and sisters, >

Re: Simple question

2012-05-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 20, 1:15 am, meekerdb wrote: > "You" only split when some quantum event gets amplified to make a > macroscopic, i.e. > quasi-classical, difference.  Otherwise "Craig Weinberg" is a somewhat fuzzy > operator > projecting onto a lot of slight different, but classically equivalent, > subspa

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread meekerdb
"You" only split when some quantum event gets amplified to make a macroscopic, i.e. quasi-classical, difference. Otherwise "Craig Weinberg" is a somewhat fuzzy operator projecting onto a lot of slight different, but classically equivalent, subspaces. When the "Craig Weinberg" on that subspace

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
Wouldn't it also sort of mean that you can't die in your sleep? Why do we keep waking up in the same life when we could just as easily jump to a different one? What if the experience of being completely asleep continued forever without you ever knowing whether or not you had survived your friends a

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2012 1:24 AM, alexalex wrote: Taking the qunatum immortality argument as a fact what do you think about the following implication? If you'll be conscious only in those universes where you'll keep on living then most surely you'll watch all your brothers and sisters, friends and foes DIE

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 5/19/2012 2:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > Alex, > > One way I see of 'escaping' quantum immortality is to assume elements of > the simulation argument ( http://www.simulation-argument.com/ ) are > correct. The simulation argument suppo

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/19/2012 2:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Alex, One way I see of 'escaping' quantum immortality is to assume elements of the simulation argument ( http://www.simulation-argument.com/ ) are correct. The simulation argument supposes that the computational capacity of civilizations eventually re

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread Jason Resch
Alex, One way I see of 'escaping' quantum immortality is to assume elements of the simulation argument ( http://www.simulation-argument.com/ ) are correct. The simulation argument supposes that the computational capacity of civilizations eventually reaches the point where they can run minds on th

Re: Simple question

2012-05-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 May 2012, at 10:24, alexalex wrote: Taking the qunatum immortality argument as a fact what do you think about the following implication? If you'll be conscious only in those universes where you'll keep on living then most surely you'll watch all your brothers and sisters, friends and fo