RE: the Duplication Chamber

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 13:11:21 MST


Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

> gts wrote:
>
>>
>> But this is also true for real people in the MWI 1000 way
>> chamber. 1 of 1000 alternates experience a stream of
>> consciousness from beginning to end. 999 are extinguished before
>> the end.
>
> ### Since duplication is instantaneous, all duplicates experience
> the same stream of consciousness. Insistence on one of them being
> somehow special has no physical basis.

They do not experience the same stream of consciousness under MWI, by
definition. They come into existence under MWI precisely *because* each
must experience 1 of 1000 different possible outcomes to the experiment.

This is true also for non-MWI methods of duplication in that each is
observing a slightly different reality at the time of his creation, even
if that difference is only as a matter of perspective.

-gts



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