Psy-Kosh comments on The Conscious Sorites Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2008 02:50:47PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer:

"I admit that when Wallace talks about the number of observers being unmeasurable because decoherence gives you a continuous tube of amplitude rather than distinct blobs - so that I'm not so much twins, as smeared - he manages to unnerve me even more than I was already unnerved, with regards to my feeble attempts to count observer-moments. But, ultimately, you could construct the same situation with Ebborians, so..."

How would one construct a "smeared Ebborian"?