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.
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.