From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 18:30:43 MST
2009/3/5 John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm>:
> 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.
Before you toss the coin what should your expectation of tails be?
Would it be any different in a single world versus many worlds
cosmology?
-- Stathis Papaioannou
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