[ExI] Let's play What If.

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/27/2010 5:10 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> As I understand your position this is
> impossible: you think you will end up as the original with probability
> 1 and as a copy with probability 0.

Of course--in the situation you first proposed. Say I walk into a 
scanning station, lie down, get scanned, stand up and the team wave me 
off after a nice cup of tea. Then they settle down to cleaning up any 
glitches in the scan and begin running off either one or a million 
copies who coalesce in the copy tank/s. Surely you're not claiming that 
everyone gets really really confused at that point, including me, and 
forgets who the original was?

> So what do you think would happen
> if the MWI is correct and there is no original?

I have no idea. But that isn't the case you proposed, where someone (a 
original) is asked which of two copying procedures to authorize, each 
procedure entailing a horrendous consequence for one copy.

Damien Broderick