Re: zombie wives

1999-09-04 Thread GSLevy
George Levy writes: >Russell Standish is as infinite as the continuum, and in > fact there is a path along the Russell Standish continuum that eventually > becomes George Levy. Russell Standish Responds >No - I don't believe this is true in the MWI of Quantum Mechanics. It >may be true of the

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-30 Thread Christopher Maloney
"Jacques M. Mallah" wrote: > > > relative SSA predicts that the observer will see at the next instant > > of time an observer moment with the greatest measure, subject to its > > lying in the future of the current observer moment. That measure may > > be fantastically small (eg just prior to a

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-30 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Russell Standish wrote: > > I use the terms SSA, ASSA, RSSA only because others on the list > > insist on using them. In my opinion the 'ASSA' is a tautology and not > > an assumption, while the 'RSSA' is an error. > > ASSA SSA. ASSA makes explicit the sample set over w

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-28 Thread GSLevy
<< George Levy writes > > This said, I find it difficult to talk about increase and decrease and making > comparisons of the measure when the quantity in question is infinite. > > Measure is not finite. This would violate the principle of plenitude and it > would require a reason fo

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-26 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
I use the terms SSA, ASSA, RSSA only because others on the list insist on using them. In my opinion the 'ASSA' is a tautology and not an assumption, while the 'RSSA' is an error. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Russell Standish wrote: > Now this implies that an individual's measure decreases the o

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-24 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Jacques M. Mallah wrote: > Life will continue but with decreasing measure. Still it seems > that you can make a refutable prediction: namely, that the universe we are > in is not optimised for us to be here, but is optimised to give you a long > lifetime. Basically you

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-20 Thread Marchal
Jacques Mallah wrote: > No, I'm just a sane MWIer. I have explained my views on this on >previous occasions. > According to the standard MWI, the measure of a human is >proprtional to the squared amplitude of the term in the wavefunction which >that human is in. As long as there is

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Russell Standish
> > On 18 xxx -1, Marchal wrote: > > Jacques M. Mallah wrote: > > >> Russell Standish wrote: > > >> I still don't see what measure has to do with conciousness! > > > That is the problem. > > I don't see that either. > > The measure is defined on the set of computations and gives the > > relati

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On 18 xxx -1, Marchal wrote: > Jacques M. Mallah wrote: > >> Russell Standish wrote: > >> I still don't see what measure has to do with conciousness! > > That is the problem. > I don't see that either. > The measure is defined on the set of computations and gives the > relative probability of

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Russell Standish wrote: [Jack wrote] > > What I am trying to do is to look at the consequences of the > > claims made by the quantum suicide camp. The claim is that consciousness > > 'flows into' possible continuations of oneself and is, in effect, > > conserved as long a