I also fail to see why that particular time coordinate is important.
Because I asked you for it? I mean, I’d also be happy with her before she contracted the disease, and any time during which she had the disease (assuming she’s brought back sans smallpox), and probably everything up till about a week after she’s cured of the disease (assuming she’s been in a coma-state since), under reasonable assumptions. But you asked for one, and that’s my strongest preference (and an easy one to describe).
How fuzzy is acceptable?
This fuzzy. [points at head] Give or take.
More specifically, the present state of the world determines many histories, but all of them are very similar (from our perch, way up here above physics). I want her within the bounds that are forced by the present.
(I suspect that the present is entangled enough such that the So8res’ that hallucinated Ah-Chen are distinguishable from myself, and that in all histories forced by now, she was truly there. If this is not the case, and the variance of history is wider than expected, then you should choose the median Ah-Chen within the boundaries forced by the present.)
Do you suggests you want to pick the herd of all possible Ah-Chens?
No more than I am currently the herd of all possible So8res.
How would you define what all possible means?
Need I? I’m asking for a girl, as she was when she died, as if she had (counter-factually) recovered from smallpox. Given adequate knowledge of the world (enough to let me deduce the precise state of the universe in her vicinity when she died) and sufficient ability (to reconstruct that state of matter, sans-virus) I could construct this unambiguously (enough so for my satisfaction, again given our perch towering above physics). I don’t see why the facts that “there are many processes that she could have become” or “there are many other ways she could have been before the sickness” make this unclear.
As for the fact that there is quantum fuzziness and I cannot get the “precise state” of her when she died, I am perfectly happy with anything within the boundaries forced by the present.
The argument seems to be along the lines of “there are many exact configurations that you call Ah-Chen, which one do you want?” But it’s not as if you’re going to build me an exact configuration. It’s not like the past forces that the electron had amplitude in this fuzzy area, and you have to pick an exact place to put it.
I do not need you to pick a precise place to put each atom, when history does not constrain you to do so. Rather, when history says “the amplitude for this electron was in this fuzzy circle”, I need you to build something where there’s an electron with amplitude in that fuzzy circle.
If you cannot deduce the boundaries on history forced by the present, if you must rely upon me for an exact description of the way she was, then I cannot give you enough precision reconstruct her. But I heard you could bring back the dead.
Because I asked you for it? I mean, I’d also be happy with her before she contracted the disease, and any time during which she had the disease (assuming she’s brought back sans smallpox), and probably everything up till about a week after she’s cured of the disease (assuming she’s been in a coma-state since), under reasonable assumptions. But you asked for one, and that’s my strongest preference (and an easy one to describe).
This fuzzy. [points at head] Give or take.
More specifically, the present state of the world determines many histories, but all of them are very similar (from our perch, way up here above physics). I want her within the bounds that are forced by the present.
(I suspect that the present is entangled enough such that the So8res’ that hallucinated Ah-Chen are distinguishable from myself, and that in all histories forced by now, she was truly there. If this is not the case, and the variance of history is wider than expected, then you should choose the median Ah-Chen within the boundaries forced by the present.)
No more than I am currently the herd of all possible So8res.
Need I? I’m asking for a girl, as she was when she died, as if she had (counter-factually) recovered from smallpox. Given adequate knowledge of the world (enough to let me deduce the precise state of the universe in her vicinity when she died) and sufficient ability (to reconstruct that state of matter, sans-virus) I could construct this unambiguously (enough so for my satisfaction, again given our perch towering above physics). I don’t see why the facts that “there are many processes that she could have become” or “there are many other ways she could have been before the sickness” make this unclear.
As for the fact that there is quantum fuzziness and I cannot get the “precise state” of her when she died, I am perfectly happy with anything within the boundaries forced by the present.
The argument seems to be along the lines of “there are many exact configurations that you call Ah-Chen, which one do you want?” But it’s not as if you’re going to build me an exact configuration. It’s not like the past forces that the electron had amplitude in this fuzzy area, and you have to pick an exact place to put it.
I do not need you to pick a precise place to put each atom, when history does not constrain you to do so. Rather, when history says “the amplitude for this electron was in this fuzzy circle”, I need you to build something where there’s an electron with amplitude in that fuzzy circle.
If you cannot deduce the boundaries on history forced by the present, if you must rely upon me for an exact description of the way she was, then I cannot give you enough precision reconstruct her. But I heard you could bring back the dead.