From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 17:42:52 MST
Lee Corbin,
> And that is a fine FAQ (I read it many years ago).
Unfortunately you didn't understand it, Lee.
Under MWI, there is no time at which the alternate observers of the
alternate outcomes of an experiment exist in identical states.
*The alternates come into existence precisely to embody different
states, and are in those different states at their creation.*
This is true by the way without postulating anything called
"consciousness". We might just as well send a corpse through a 1000 way
MWI chamber. If 999 of the outcomes result in disintegration of the
corpse then the corpse we send in would have a .001 probability of
"surviving." All that matters is that the state of the subject of our
duplication experiment be altered according to the different possible
outcomes of the experiment.
I can see also why acknowledging this fact would spoil your argument
that MWI alternates should be treated in the same way as what you call
"classical" duplications, (as if there were such a thing as classical
duplications). If you were to admit what Hal and I see, that the MWI
interpretation of QM would result in death for 999 of 1000 subjects who
enter your chamber, then your arguments for guaranteed survival of such
a chamber would be weakened considerably regardless of the QM
interpretation.
Actually I think you probably see this as clearly as Hal and I see it.
At least I'd like to give your mind the benefit of the doubt in that
respect.
I sign off from this thread.
-gts
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