michael_vassar3 comments on On Being Decoherent - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 28 April 2008 09:05:15PM 0 points [-]

Hopefully: If an exact duplicate of you 10^(10^29) light years away was being tortured you would know because torture is the description of a physical state. Another copy of your physical state can't be subject to torture without your also being subject to it. OTOH, I think that you are imagining a physical system that has evolved from a system that was, when described classically just like you. Such a system doesn't transmit any information to you so your consciousness can't be of it being tortured.