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qmotus comments on The map of quantum (big world) immortality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: qmotus 29 January 2016 04:57:16PM 0 points [-]

I think this post by entirelyuseless answers your question quite well, so if you're still puzzled by this, we can continue there. Also, I don't see how QI depends on any additional weird assumptions. After all, you're using the word "experience" in your list of two points without defining it exactly. I don't see why it's necessary to define it either: a conscious experience is most likely simply a computational thing with a physical basis, and MWI and these other big world scenarios essentially say that all physical states (that are not prohibited by the laws of physics) happen somewhere.

Comment author: gjm 29 January 2016 06:09:21PM 0 points [-]

As you can see, I've replied at some length to entirelyuseless's comment.