The idea is that as long as the state-machine-which-is-you continues from its last state somewhere, your consciousness survives (since that state machine running is you being conscious). Quantum suicide splits the state-machine-which-is-you into n state machines, and at the same time destroys all except 1.
That means there will be a state machine continuing the same computation from the last state, which is just another way of saying that your consciousness survives.
It all depends on the ontological status of other Everett branches. If they’re truly real (and not just something that appears in the calculations), quantum suicide should work.
The idea is that as long as the state-machine-which-is-you continues from its last state somewhere, your consciousness survives (since that state machine running is you being conscious). Quantum suicide splits the state-machine-which-is-you into n state machines, and at the same time destroys all except 1.
That means there will be a state machine continuing the same computation from the last state, which is just another way of saying that your consciousness survives.
It all depends on the ontological status of other Everett branches. If they’re truly real (and not just something that appears in the calculations), quantum suicide should work.