From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@ocean.com.au)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 03:44:22 MST
Frank wrote:
> So s.o. should put together a "Copy Paradox FAQ" which should be a
> must-read for everyone allowed to join a discussion like this ... ;-)
I'd be a keen reader of such a FAQ.
I've been dipping in and out of reading this thread (mostly out actually -so
sorry for the ignorance and non sequitors) because I recognize the
importance for such things to uploading and possibly cryonics. Neither of
these or teleportation being an experience I am keen to undergo anytime
soon. Indeed with my current scepticism I might be amongst the last to take
a teleporter ride as I can see no way of testing the thing with braver
volunteers that would satisfy me.
Major spilling of ignorance coming.
I actually bought Mike Perry book "Forever for all" from Amazon but couldn't
finish it. I realized I needed to do some catch up reading in quantum
physics to even read it critically. So I picked up copies of "Schrodinger's
cat" and "Schrodingers Kittens" by John Gribbon and a natty litty book
"Introducing Quantum Theory" by J.P McEvoy and Oscar Zarate. At this stage
its probably fair comment to say I've forgotten most of what I read. But it
was reassuring to read that Bohr apparently said "anyone who is not shocked
by quantum theory has not understood it".
The whole idea of many worlds (invoked by Mike Perry in his book above)
seemed to me to be a complete reversal of the Ockams razor approach. It
seemed that every time an new uncertaintuy arouse in the existing model
rather than add an extra dimension or finessing some subtlety at the
boundary or even say damn we just don't know yet, what the many worlders do
is add a whole additional universe every time an uncertainty is encountered.
A little bit like we'd finished "mapping the edges" of the last one.
Practically, it would seem there are few more issues of eventual interest to
extropic types, including myself, but I will take a huge amount of
convincing before abandoning the view, in any non-hypothetical way, that
just because someone else (a copy claims to be me and appears to everyone
else to be me that they are me).
As I said, I'd be a keen reader of such a FAQ, anyone up to writing it?
Brett
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