From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 17:43:40 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts writes
>
>>>> Problem is that they are *not* totally identical at the instant
>>>> of creation. At the instant of creation, each of the 1000 is
>>>> observing a different outcome, 999 of which is disintegration.
>>>
>>> What? Then you don't understand *my* thought experiment.
>>
>> Your thought experiment is pure fantasy.
>
> Are you *trying* to be funny?
heh. :)
Also funny was my unwitting comment in a previous post about the
coin-flip, in which I stated that you were experiencing tails in another
universe. In your dreams. :)
> Sorry, but in, say, 10^-40 seconds, no one is experiencing
> anything. It's ridiculous to assert that they are experiencing
> different realities by then. Not one single neuron has had time
> to fire.
Perhaps you need to review standard QM. It is in the moment of
measurement that the wave function collapses, (or in which the universes
splits under MWI). There is no delay.
> Then how could your bed be empty? How could there be a .999
> probability that your bed could be empty?
It's not. I covered this in a follow-up post. Sorry I missed that point.
> Why won't the one who assumes your role act exactly like you do,
> i.e., live at the same address and sleep in the same bed?
He can, but I'm dead.
-gts
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