From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 07:56:27 MST
gts writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > they cannot observe ANYTHING in so short a time.
>
> There is no "too short of time."
>
> Regardless of when the observation registers with the brain, there is
> only one person in the Planck moment prior to that in which the
> observation registers.
>
> Why is that so hard to fathom?
I'm not even sure I understand your statement. Here is a time
line:
t0: one entity exists
t1: (Planck time) 1000 entities exist
...
t10^35: each duplicate "observes" a difference
because finally his neurons have finished
firing.
Between the time t1 and t10^30 or so, 1000 entities
exist and are identical insofar as their perceptions
go. But recall that the central question for you is
how it could be at t1 that the original is associated
with only *one* of the duplicates, the others not
carrying the property that should they survive the
original will survive.
We have a physically completely symmetrical 1000-way fork,
and you have yet to say in what way any one of them could
have a special property.
Lee
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