Lightwave comments on MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 September 2009 08:45:45PM *  3 points [-]

Assuming QI, if I get frozen to be unfrozen later, I don't expect QI to "save" me from being frozen -- I expect to experience whatever comes after unfreezing and not a magical malfunction of the freezing machine that prevents me from getting frozen. But if I'm being frozen for eternity, it's death, and so I expect QI to save me from it by a quantum fluctuation.

References: The Hidden Complexity of Wishes, Magical Categories. The concept of "death" is too complex to be captured by any phenomenon other than the process of computation of this concept in human minds, or something derived therefrom.

Comment author: Lightwave 19 September 2009 07:21:22AM *  0 points [-]

Assuming QI, if I get frozen to be unfrozen later, I don't expect QI to "save" me from being frozen

Why wouldn't you expect to be "saved"? MWI simply means that anything that can happen - will happen (in some branch). So you'll be "saved" in both cases in some branches (if this is physically possible given the current situation).