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A thought experiment called Quantum Suicide [1] is an interesting read in this context. [1] https://thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/ https://thoughtexpe
by yoaviram 7y ago
A thought experiment called Quantum Suicide [1] is an interesting read in this context.
[1] https://thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/ https://thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/
- akvadrako 7y agoAll these people saying many worlds and Copenhagen have identical predictions are totally ignoring this. If many worlds implies quantum immortality and Copenhagen doesn't, that's a clearly detectable physical difference.
- kgwgk 7y agoDetectable how precisely?
- akvadrako 7y agoBy not dieing.
- kgwgk 7y agoSo if you do it and you don't die would you say that you proved something? If someone does it and doesn't die would you think that did prove anything? If one thousand people do it and one of them is still alive after 10 coin flips does that prove anything? What is the detectable physical difference? How do you carry on an experiment to detect that physical difference? What is the protocol to determine that the physical difference has been detected? Please let me know how should we do to not totally ignore this.
- akvadrako 7y agoQI predicts you’ll still be alive in 1M years with 100% probability. Not-QI puts that probability lower. So if you are still alive in 1M years that’s evidence of QI. Basic Bayesian reasoning.
- kgwgk 7y agoOr you are just lucky. It all depends on the prior probability, even if you are eager to misapply Bayesian reasoning.
- akvadrako 7y agoI'm not sure what point you are trying to make. It's still a different physical prediction and evidence of QI over non-QI. You can always just be lucky; maybe gravity causes the Earth to move randomly and we've just been lucky to see if orbiting the sun for the past few years.
- kgwgk 7y agoSo the physical prediction is that I will never die, unlike the alternative physical prediction that I will die at some point. And therefore every second I remain alive is evidence for the MWI. If not having died before makes you think you're immortal more power to you. I don't find that reasonable.