From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 12:59:17 MST
gts wrote:
> The same scenario can arise in a non-MWI world given the passage of
> enough time and events from the time of the bifurcation. In either
> case it is absurd to say that you and that alternate version have the
> same non-nominal identity. The two of you are the same in name only,
> even if you happen to share some memories in common.
>
### You are aware that the bifurcations of MWI occur at each quantum event,
in an infinite number of ways, described summarily by the wave function. In
other words, every neuron you have is constantly splitting to produce an
infinite number of gts's in diverging branches of the multiverse. These
persons do share their memories, in the extreme case they differ only in the
value of one quantum property (e.g. the direction of the spin of a single
electron), classically described as a superposition. Subjectively all of
them experience being gts and it would be improper to say they are in
different spacetime coordinates - their spatiotemporal location can be said
to overlap. Are you the one and only gts, while all the branches that differ
from you by an electron are somebody else?
I find it easy to think at the seventh level, because I accept the MWI, and
the existence of an infinite sheaf of universes containing objects I
identify with - my extended person.
Rafal
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