There might also be situations where surviving is not just ridiculously unlikely, but simply mathematically impossible. That is, I assume that not everything is possible through quantum effects? I’m not a physicist. I mean, what quantum effects would it take to have your body live forever? Are they really possible?
And I have serious doubts that surviving a plane crash or not could be due to quantum effects, but I suppose it could simply be incredibly unlikely. I fear that people might be confusing “possible worlds” in the subjective Bayesian sense and in the quantum many-worlds sense.
In Soviet Union a woman survived mid-air frontal planes collision—her chair rotated together with part of the wing and failed into a forrest.
But the main idea here is that the same “me” may exist in different worlds—in one I am in a plane in the other I am in plane simulator. I will survive in the second one.
My point was that QM is probabilistic only at the smallest level, for example in the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. I don’t think surviving a plane crash is ontologically probabilistic, unless of course the crash depends on some sort of radioactive decay or something! You can’t make it so that you survive the plane crash without completely changing the prior causal networks… up until the beginning of you universe. Maybe there could be a way to very slightly change one of the universal constants so that nothing changes except that you survive, but I seriously doubt it.
As turchin said, it’s possible that the person in the plane accident exists in both a “real world” and a simulation, and will survive in the latter. Or they quantum tunnel to ground level before the plane crashes (as far as I know, this has an incredibly small but non-zero probability of occurring, although I’m not a physicist either). Or they’re resurrected by somebody, perhaps trillions of years after the crash. And so forth.
In fact so called QI does not depends of QM at all. All it needs is big world in Tegmark style.
This means that many earths exist in the universe and they are different, but me is the same on them. On one earth the planes kill everybody and on the other there will be survivors.
There might also be situations where surviving is not just ridiculously unlikely, but simply mathematically impossible. That is, I assume that not everything is possible through quantum effects? I’m not a physicist. I mean, what quantum effects would it take to have your body live forever? Are they really possible?
And I have serious doubts that surviving a plane crash or not could be due to quantum effects, but I suppose it could simply be incredibly unlikely. I fear that people might be confusing “possible worlds” in the subjective Bayesian sense and in the quantum many-worlds sense.
In Soviet Union a woman survived mid-air frontal planes collision—her chair rotated together with part of the wing and failed into a forrest.
But the main idea here is that the same “me” may exist in different worlds—in one I am in a plane in the other I am in plane simulator. I will survive in the second one.
My point was that QM is probabilistic only at the smallest level, for example in the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. I don’t think surviving a plane crash is ontologically probabilistic, unless of course the crash depends on some sort of radioactive decay or something! You can’t make it so that you survive the plane crash without completely changing the prior causal networks… up until the beginning of you universe. Maybe there could be a way to very slightly change one of the universal constants so that nothing changes except that you survive, but I seriously doubt it.
As turchin said, it’s possible that the person in the plane accident exists in both a “real world” and a simulation, and will survive in the latter. Or they quantum tunnel to ground level before the plane crashes (as far as I know, this has an incredibly small but non-zero probability of occurring, although I’m not a physicist either). Or they’re resurrected by somebody, perhaps trillions of years after the crash. And so forth.
In fact so called QI does not depends of QM at all. All it needs is big world in Tegmark style.
This means that many earths exist in the universe and they are different, but me is the same on them. On one earth the planes kill everybody and on the other there will be survivors.