Re: Many selves (was Diaries (was: Re: The Pause that Refreshes))

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 06:33:27 MDT


Maybe its like in Tegmark's Ensamble, where there are zillions of cosmii,
some of which will always have a version of "you" everytime a Cosm, branches
off, Everett-DeWitt-Wheeler style? In some universes there will always be a
template of YOU virtually unchanged.

In a message dated 6/13/00 12:31:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bryan.moss@btinternet.com writes:

<< Harvey Newstrom wrote:
 
> The latest "Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Again, while I don't loathe my present self, I am not
> > satisfied with him.
>
> Does this relate in any way to our copy discussions, in
> which you wanted to kill your previous version? :-)
 
>I no longer need the copy - if substrate doesn't matter then
>physicality isn't necessary for some algorithm to be said to
>"exist". There really is an immortal soul!<
 
 BM >>



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