In (260 - 1) of the universes, I die. By definition, these universes are not observable to me and hence to me they do not and cannot exist. For every continuous thread of consciousness I continue to exist. I will not die during the experiment.
This isn't sollipsism, but it is somewhat idealism-flavoured.
Of course, I will not deny that others have equally valid consciousnesses, which is why I would never actually conduct the experiment, even if I were 100% convinced that the MWI were correct. To the external observer I would almost certainly die, and I would not do that to (260 - 1) galaxy_girl00s. And, you know, all you lot.
(Addendum: that's the downside of this experiment — even if it produces a positive result, you can hardly consider this result to be communicable to other people. To some, that would disqualify it as a scientific experiment. YMMV.)
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Date: 2009-01-21 09:06 am (UTC)This isn't sollipsism, but it is somewhat idealism-flavoured.
Of course, I will not deny that others have equally valid consciousnesses, which is why I would never actually conduct the experiment, even if I were 100% convinced that the MWI were correct. To the external observer I would almost certainly die, and I would not do that to (260 - 1)
(Addendum: that's the downside of this experiment — even if it produces a positive result, you can hardly consider this result to be communicable to other people. To some, that would disqualify it as a scientific experiment. YMMV.)