If the likelihood of my revival and resumption of awareness is only 5%, then it doesn’t much alleviate the emotional trauma of death.
“resumption of awareness”—I think that this is a common intuition that people have—that their awareness is a continuous stream that is interrupted only by death—but I think it is nonsense.
If you look at cryonics from a MW QM/subjective probability point of view, the “subjective probability” of revival is 100%, but that’s only because branches where you don’t survive don’t contribute to your subjective probability from this point of view.
If you take the utilitarian point of view, then 5% * millions or billions of years of fabulous life looks pretty good…
If you look at cryonics from a MW QM/subjective probability point of view, the “subjective probability” of revival is 100%, but that’s only because branches where you don’t survive don’t contribute to your subjective probability from this point of view.
Well if I’m banking on MW QM don’t I already enjoy subjective quantum immortality, regardless of cryonics?
Immortality is not much fun if you are in perpetual pain.
If you condition on your own survival without cryo, there is an increased chance of most of the survival probability mass coming from scenarios where you are kept alive unpleasantly.
Also, you might place some stead in “subjective” survival, and some in total survival measure.
Immortality is not much fun if you are in perpetual pain.
If you condition on your own survival without cryo, there is an increased chance of most of the survival probability mass coming from scenarios where you are kept alive unpleasantly.
To bad about all those people who lived before cryo. I guess they all have at least a few world paths where they are in...hell?
I think that, like Schrodinger’s Cat was originally posited as a thought experiment to show that there is something wrong with the Copenhagen interpretation of a wave collapse; Quantum Immortality was originally posited as a thought experiment to suggest that there is something intuitively wrong with the many worlds interpretation of QM. I know MW is very popular here, but personally I don’t find any interpretation of QM to be meaningful. The only thing we know is that the standard model makes accurate predictions. But that is another debate.
“resumption of awareness”—I think that this is a common intuition that people have—that their awareness is a continuous stream that is interrupted only by death—but I think it is nonsense.
If you look at cryonics from a MW QM/subjective probability point of view, the “subjective probability” of revival is 100%, but that’s only because branches where you don’t survive don’t contribute to your subjective probability from this point of view.
If you take the utilitarian point of view, then 5% * millions or billions of years of fabulous life looks pretty good…
Well if I’m banking on MW QM don’t I already enjoy subjective quantum immortality, regardless of cryonics?
Immortality is not much fun if you are in perpetual pain.
If you condition on your own survival without cryo, there is an increased chance of most of the survival probability mass coming from scenarios where you are kept alive unpleasantly.
Also, you might place some stead in “subjective” survival, and some in total survival measure.
Interesting arguments. Thank you.
no problem!
To bad about all those people who lived before cryo. I guess they all have at least a few world paths where they are in...hell?
I think that, like Schrodinger’s Cat was originally posited as a thought experiment to show that there is something wrong with the Copenhagen interpretation of a wave collapse; Quantum Immortality was originally posited as a thought experiment to suggest that there is something intuitively wrong with the many worlds interpretation of QM. I know MW is very popular here, but personally I don’t find any interpretation of QM to be meaningful. The only thing we know is that the standard model makes accurate predictions. But that is another debate.