Cool Worlds: Quantum Immortality With Professor David Kippling My thoughts on this video come down to one idea: how do we know who we are? What constitutes identity? Why are we not, in some way, everyone else? If consciousness is the substrate of reality, as many physicists and philosophers have considered, then isn’t our “uniqueness”Continue reading “What it Would Mean to Never Die”
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The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality
I was reading Robert Lanza’s new book, The Grand Biocentric Design recently, focusing especially on his discussion of the Quantum Suicide paradox and Everett’s multiverse. Briefly, here is the thought experiment summarized: ”A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it is rigged to a machine that measuresContinue reading “The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality”
