From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 15:38:10 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### 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.
Of course.
(Minor point, however: the proper adjective here is indefinite, not
infinite. There are not an infinite number of Rafals in the multiverse,
though the number of Rafals is indefinitely large and expanding
rapidly.)
> Are you the one and only gts, while all the
> branches that differ from you by an electron are somebody else?
Each of us could be said to be "gts-1" to "gts-n," where n is the
indefinitely large number of universes in the multiverse in which people
who share my nominal identity exist. If I call this universe of mine
"universe-1" then I am gts-1 and all other gts's are different people.
Those other gts's share my *nominal* identity but not my *non-nominal*
identity.
The distinction between nominal and non-nominal is very important. Lee
has asserted that alternate versions of oneself share the same
non-nominal identity as oneself. Obviously I disagree.
> 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.
It's one thing to "identify with" something other than you. It's quite
another thing to have the same identity as something other than you. For
example I identify with all humans but I am not every human.
-gts
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