[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 01:59:44 UTC 2008


On 18/01/2008, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> I certainly agree that we shouldn't speak of them "previously
> existing distinctly".  On the other hand, it has seemed useful to
> speak of some "portion" of the stream as becoming distinguished
> from the rest, when we want to describe branching.

Do you mean that they are not distinct in the way the aforementioned
carbon atoms are not distinct?

[Actually, I thought that atoms can be distinct since they are systems
rather than simple particles, and the electrons, for example, could be
at different energy levels.]





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Stathis Papaioannou



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