Yeah. Ignore gominokouhai's thread above, as it's tangential. The generally accepted idea is that millions of alternate yous have millions of alternate, but equally valid, consciousnesses.
That's the point of the experiment in the post — for each 260 yous that carry out the experiment, (260 − 1) of them die and thus reach no conclusion. But the lucky one comes through unscathed, and concludes that the odds of such a thing happening are so incredibly remote that the many-worlds interpretation can be the only reason he is still alive.
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Date: 2009-01-20 08:32 am (UTC)That's the point of the experiment in the post — for each 260 yous that carry out the experiment, (260 − 1) of them die and thus reach no conclusion. But the lucky one comes through unscathed, and concludes that the odds of such a thing happening are so incredibly remote that the many-worlds interpretation can be the only reason he is still alive.