Re:Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
by AgentME on Sunday September 08, 2019 @10:58PM
(#20914870)
There's multiple, and each of them have their own experiences since the split. The other versions of yourself are basically other people that just happen to share a part of your history.
Wondering why you're a specific one of them and not the other seems equivalent to me to wondering why you're you and not some another person in our own world. I think it's an interesting question, but I'm not sure what an answer to it could possibly look like (since any answer that says why you're you somehow needs to work out differently for other people to explain why they're themselves too) which implies the question is malformed somehow. (If your consciousness were ... someone else, or even switched people it was tracking somehow, it's not like anyone would notice.)
Re:Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
by paulddraper on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:07PM
(#20919990)
> seems equivalent to me to wondering why you're you and not some another person in our own world.
Indeed.
Whether this is a problem or not depends on what your conception of consciousness/identity is. I see a conflict or unanswered problem there; you may not.