From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Mar 07 2009 - 16:13:30 MST
--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com> wrote:
> The irreducible randomness of the first person perspective does not
> come from an inability of an observer to fully know the universe's
> state. It is easy to imagine special cases where the observer knows
> everything relevant about the experiment: at 10 AM I will be
> duplicated, one of the copies will see heads and the other copy will
> see tails. In the case of a classical coin toss in a non-branching
> universe, assigning a probability of 1/2 to heads is due to partial
> ignorance: I know how a series of past coin tosses have turned out,
> but I don't know how this particular one will turn out, for if I did I
> would assign heads a probability of either 1 or 0. But in the former
> example although I know exactly what is going to happen, I don't know
> what I'm going to experience.
You're asking the wrong question. One of you will experience heads and one will experience tails.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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