Re: [sl4] Re: Uploads coming first would be good, right?.

From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 10:56:25 MST


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 "Stathis Papaioannou"
<stathisp@gmail.com> said:

> A quantum coin toss under the many worlds interpretation
> of quantum mechanics still results in a 1/2 chance of
> the observer seeing heads or tails

Question: You toss a coin and find that it came out tails; what is the
probability that it came out tails?

Answer: 100%

As we were discussing the matter of personal identity there is simply no
other way to look at the matter.

 John K Clark

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