A superhuman intelligence that understood the nature of human consciousness and subjective experience would presumably know whether QI was correct, incorrect, or somehow a wrong question. Consciousness and experience all happen within physics, they just currently confuse the hell out of us.
As I understand it, it makes a prediction about your future experience (and the MWI measure of that experience)--not dying. Is that not falsifiable? I suppose you could argue that it’s a logical and inescapable consequence of MWI, and not in itself falsifiable, but that doesn’t seem like an important distinction.
I don’t see how Tegmark’s paper is relevant to this question.
I suppose you could argue that it’s a logical and inescapable consequence of MWI
It is. If you believe MWI, you believe that Schrodinger’s cat will experience survival every time, even if you repeated the experiment 100 times, but that you will observe the cat dead if you repeat the experiment enough times.
There is no falsifiable fact above and beyond MWI as far as I can see, apart from the general air of confusion about subjective experience, which hasn’t coalesced into anything sufficiently definite enough to be falsified.
How could it be “correct” or “incorrect”? QI doesn’t make a falsifiable factual claim, as far as I know…
A superhuman intelligence that understood the nature of human consciousness and subjective experience would presumably know whether QI was correct, incorrect, or somehow a wrong question. Consciousness and experience all happen within physics, they just currently confuse the hell out of us.
I think it is becoming clear that it is a wrong question.
see Max Tegmark on MWI
Neat paper!
As I understand it, it makes a prediction about your future experience (and the MWI measure of that experience)--not dying. Is that not falsifiable? I suppose you could argue that it’s a logical and inescapable consequence of MWI, and not in itself falsifiable, but that doesn’t seem like an important distinction.
I don’t see how Tegmark’s paper is relevant to this question.
It is. If you believe MWI, you believe that Schrodinger’s cat will experience survival every time, even if you repeated the experiment 100 times, but that you will observe the cat dead if you repeat the experiment enough times.
There is no falsifiable fact above and beyond MWI as far as I can see, apart from the general air of confusion about subjective experience, which hasn’t coalesced into anything sufficiently definite enough to be falsified.