RE: the Duplication Chamber

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 18:08:14 MST


Lee Corbin wrote:

> Hal writes
> If by that, you mean that in common parlance we talk as though
> someone's chances "aren't very good". For example, if the doctor
> says that the person has a one in one hundred chance of surviving
> the operation, then we should take it that the doctor is not
> referring to MWI, even though he may be a stalwart believer.
> If you pointed out to him that in one percent of the universes
> the patient survives, and therefore survives *somewhere* he
> would agree.

Try explaining that to the patient!

-gts (the patient)



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