Actually, assuming many-worlds and Higgs-Boson-ends-the-world, the world could have ended every time a sufficiently powerful cosmic ray hit the ground in a way that Higgs boson formed. We just live in the branch where that never happened.
We could, except that we also live in a brach where a sufficiently-powerful cosmic ray never hit (a) the Moon, (b) Jupiter, (c) Venus, (d) Mars, (e) Mercury, etcetera etcetera etcetera, and these possibilities are not eliminated by anthropic concerns.
If the world ends every time a powerful cosmic ray hits us, but we don’t know since according to the the MWI, we always end up in a living branch—then one just can’t die. You’ll live forever. You’ll be 210 years old and very weak, but every time your alterself died of this aging process, you’ve managed to survive, thanks to the MWI and some random quirk.
The fraction of Thomases that live that long is very nearly zero. If one person in a googolplex naturally lives to the age of 210, does that conflict with your intuitions?
Actually, assuming many-worlds and Higgs-Boson-ends-the-world, the world could have ended every time a sufficiently powerful cosmic ray hit the ground in a way that Higgs boson formed. We just live in the branch where that never happened.
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We could, except that we also live in a brach where a sufficiently-powerful cosmic ray never hit (a) the Moon, (b) Jupiter, (c) Venus, (d) Mars, (e) Mercury, etcetera etcetera etcetera, and these possibilities are not eliminated by anthropic concerns.
If the world ends every time a powerful cosmic ray hits us, but we don’t know since according to the the MWI, we always end up in a living branch—then one just can’t die. You’ll live forever. You’ll be 210 years old and very weak, but every time your alterself died of this aging process, you’ve managed to survive, thanks to the MWI and some random quirk.
I don’t think so, call me crazy.
The fraction of Thomases that live that long is very nearly zero. If one person in a googolplex naturally lives to the age of 210, does that conflict with your intuitions?
Instead of making the so called quantum seppuku, I just have to wait for 100 years. I should be in the “me alive” branch anyway.
If you buy MWI, you should buy this conclusion also.
I don’t.