Eitan_Zohar comments on The Consequences of Dust Theory. - Less Wrong Discussion
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I'm not sure I understand.
Yes! This is it! Thank you!
(Is this also evidence that Dust Theory/MWI is true? Or can it be explained through some other phenomenon? It seems that it might be- it's why we aren't in a 'perfectly' stable existence, i.e. one that did not involve sleep at all, which would be extremely hard to enter. Also it solves the Doomsday Argument, since transhumans wouldn't sleep.)
No, if your subconscious could anchor you in reality than you couldn't eliminate the knowledge entirely from your perception just by concentrating really hard. You would need to use nanotech to completely destroy the idea, which is a way I suggested of escaping the death of the universe.
I'm not familiar with the Copenhagen school... can you describe this in more detail? How is it analogous to Dust Theory?