<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stathis writes<br><br>> In the first stage of an experiment a million copies of you are created. In<br>> the second stage, after being given an hour to contemplate their situation,<br>> one randomly chosen copy out of the million is copied a trillion times, and
<br>> all of these trillion copies are tortured. At the start of the experiment<br>> can you expect that in an hour and a bit you will almost certainly find<br>> yourself being tortured or that you will almost certainly find yourself not
<br>> being tortured? Does it make any difference if instead of an hour the<br>> interval between the two stages is a nanosecond?<br><br>Thanks for a clarifying scenario. I think that both the following are true:<br>
<br>1) you will find yourself being tortured<br>2) you will find yourself not being tortured<br><br>It's easy to see from the birds-eye perspective that these two<br>physical realizations will occur. In other words, you will
<br>experience what all of you will experience, (with variously<br>different memory retentions).<br><br>What I don't know is how "surprised" those of me who are<br>being tortured will be.</blockquote><div><br>
That's a good distinction. *Of course* versions of me will find themselves being tortured as well as not being tortured, but how surprised should the versions of me be in each case?<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou