If you wish to play with the so called QI, make sure it is a real thing.
Instead of committing a suicide, just swallow a big sleeping pill every time a Geiger ticks. Say it has 50% probability that it ticks in a 5 minutes period. If you are still awake hours after you have started this experiment, since there was no gamma ray emission in your branch, then it works! You can try it at home.
Yes, but after the experiment is over the copy of me in universes where I fell asleep would also wake up and the probability of remembering that I stayed awake through the entire experiment afterwards will always be 0.5^(minutes/5).
You actually have to kill yourself in the branches where the Geiger ticks to make observations about the validity of QI which persist afterwards, which you can then use to inform future decisions.
Indeed. Does the standard philosophy literature on quantum immortality (don’t tell me there isn’t any) point out that, if it’s real, there is a you who doesn’t go to sleep at night, and will never go to sleep again? To me this seems of qualitatively less import than quantum immortality, but I can’t see how it would actually work differently.
Yes, if QI is real every night there’s a copy of you which spontaneously develops something like fatal familial insomnia and never goes to sleep again… however you would be unable to observe this without killing yourself in all universe branches where you sleep soundly. Don’t try it at home.
If you wish to play with the so called QI, make sure it is a real thing.
Instead of committing a suicide, just swallow a big sleeping pill every time a Geiger ticks. Say it has 50% probability that it ticks in a 5 minutes period. If you are still awake hours after you have started this experiment, since there was no gamma ray emission in your branch, then it works! You can try it at home.
Yes, but after the experiment is over the copy of me in universes where I fell asleep would also wake up and the probability of remembering that I stayed awake through the entire experiment afterwards will always be 0.5^(minutes/5).
You actually have to kill yourself in the branches where the Geiger ticks to make observations about the validity of QI which persist afterwards, which you can then use to inform future decisions.
But note that no one else can do this experiment for you.
I think I’m actually going to try it… it should be fun during the process, too bad I won’t remember the results afterwards.
Indeed. Does the standard philosophy literature on quantum immortality (don’t tell me there isn’t any) point out that, if it’s real, there is a you who doesn’t go to sleep at night, and will never go to sleep again? To me this seems of qualitatively less import than quantum immortality, but I can’t see how it would actually work differently.
Yes, if QI is real every night there’s a copy of you which spontaneously develops something like fatal familial insomnia and never goes to sleep again… however you would be unable to observe this without killing yourself in all universe branches where you sleep soundly. Don’t try it at home.