From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 13:21:35 MST
gts wrote:
> 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.
### Which gts are you? Remember, there is approximately 10x26 versions of
gts differing from each other by a single electron spin somewhere in their
brains. Which one are you and how do you know?
Rafal
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