From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 14:02:34 MST
gts wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> OK, for the fifth time: At t1 there are 1000
>> identical copies with identical
>> experiences. Which one is you?
>
> This is like asking how many angels there are on the
> head of a pin. The question is meaningless because
> there are no angels on the heads of pins.
>
> If these copies were created via MWI then they do not,
> in the first place, have identical experiences. This
> is the point I've been trying to make. And there is no
> other possible means of constructing them fast enough
> to even come close to having the same experiences.
>
> This thread started when I theorized about a MWI based
> bifurcation chamber in the duck me thread. Lee opened
> this thread to reply to my message, then promptly
> tried to change the rules by inventing a different
> kind of chamber from the one I had in mind, with no
> explanation for the mechanism by which it would work.
> He did so apparently because he realized that my MWI
> based chamber does not support his theory.
>
> If you don't harness the mechanism of MWI for creating
> copies then how do you create 1000 copies in less than
> a unit of planck time such that they all have the same
> experience?
### I put all atoms painstakingly together at about 0 deg Kelvin, based on a
non-destructive scan of a frozen person. Since the copies are atomically
identical, they must have the same subjective experience.
Rafal
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