Algernoq comments on timeless quantum immortality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Algernoq 13 December 2015 11:56:53AM 0 points [-]

The 20th-century physicists speculated a lot about it. Schrodinger's Cat, the Wigner's Friend problem, etc. But in the absence of a test for consciousness they mostly went on to other things.

Comment author: qmotus 13 December 2015 12:52:47PM 1 point [-]

I've never heard that it occurred to any of them (aside from Hugh Everett) that quantum mechanics might imply something like quantum immortality, though.