posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 03:23pm on 2006-12-22
Well that's a very interesting form of solipsism served up in a very attractive new bottle. Where one's consiousness persists in a a family of alternative universes because of the observer effect. One problem I see with taking this philosophy to heart is that one will be tempted to put off making provisions for later life that are based on the assumption that one will die eventually. Another is that one might become overly casual about risktaking.

One implication of this worldview is that eventually the set of universes that promote the existence of one person will eventually no longer intersect with the sets of universes that preserve the existences of the that person's contemporaries. Therefore any two people even though they may each be subjectively immortal, will eventually have to part company as their life preserving multiverses diverge.

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