I didn’t talk about the quality of the excuse, I was remarking on why you were looking for it; and people are more likely to find what they’re looking for than the opposite. But on the object level: Do you mean that onlookers would intervene within their simulation to keep the protagonist safe? That sounds like a rather bad strategy for modeling important events correctly. But you probably mean that this particular fact about the future might be learnable by direct observation in the past… I regret to inform you that quantum physics does not place different amplitude on different objects on the same planet, amplitude is a property of world states. The proposed soul quantity has nothing to do with physics, it is a high-level fact about minds and what they’re modelling. It is a quantity of a kind with “how much do I care about each human?” and “how likely do I think each future to be?”.
I didn’t talk about the quality of the excuse, I was remarking on why you were looking for it; and people are more likely to find what they’re looking for than the opposite. But on the object level: Do you mean that onlookers would intervene within their simulation to keep the protagonist safe? That sounds like a rather bad strategy for modeling important events correctly. But you probably mean that this particular fact about the future might be learnable by direct observation in the past… I regret to inform you that quantum physics does not place different amplitude on different objects on the same planet, amplitude is a property of world states. The proposed soul quantity has nothing to do with physics, it is a high-level fact about minds and what they’re modelling. It is a quantity of a kind with “how much do I care about each human?” and “how likely do I think each future to be?”.