From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 10:29:39 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts writes
>> Perhaps you need to review standard QM. It is in the moment of
>> measurement that the wave function collapses, (or in which the
>> universe splits under MWI). There is no delay.
>
> What are you talking about? Since no neurons have had time
> to fire, then for a while in the duplication chamber there
> are 1000 identical copies.
That is not so if we define the measurement as taking place at the
moment of observation, which is how I define measurement (along with
Hugh Everett). Subject-0 splits into 1000 copies *in the act of
measurement*, not before it or after it.
> As I said before, none of them is yet observing anything.
That is not impossible even if we do not use MWI as our means of
creating copies. Each of the 1000 will be observing something, and each
of their observations will be slightly different given their different
perspectives.
> At time zero there is one person in the chamber. That person is you.
> Then at some small time later there are 1000. You claim that you
> who will enter the chamber tomorrow will continue to survive in
> only *one* of those 1000. The rest won't be you. Why not? What is
> different about them?
As I've stated several times, the other 999 are alternates of me, or
copies of me if you prefer (though I don't consider myself less of a
copy than them). They are effectively no different from the alternates
of me that would exist in 999 alternate universes, though they exist
here with me in this universe thanks to the technology of the chamber.
They are not me.
As evidence that such alternates are not me, travel on a magic carpet to
an alternate universe and disintegrate an alternate gts. Then come back
to this universe and look for me. Voila! I'm still here.
-gts
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