From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 21:01:48 MST
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> ### I see you are not answering the question I asked
> - there are roughly 10 to the 26th power versions
> of gts which differ from each other only in the
> direction of one electron spin. They are in a
> superposition of states.
I didn't answer your question because as I said it
makes no sense to me. You asked me to distinguish
myself from another gts, but I cannot do so unless I
measure one. If I measure one then he is no longer in
a superposition of states.
In MWI terms, each gts is a unique person at
measurement, located in a unique universe of the
multiverse. (Or, in Copenhagenist terms, the
wave-function collapses at measurement.)
>> Am I Hugh Hefner if I think my thoughts
>> are sufficiently similar to his?
>
> ### You may decide you are Hugh Hefner. I have no
> problem with it...
Perhaps you would have no problem with it but
unfortunately the world would become completely
nonsensical if we were to substitute this definition
of "identity" for the common-sense definition.
If you don't believe me then ask Hugh Hefner's
girlfriends. :-)
-gts
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