This isn’t true but what if I wrote and you believed that “I survived an event that had a 1-10^(-50) probability of killing me.” Would this be evidence for you of quantum immortality?
Unless I’m laboring under a significant misunderstanding, quantum immortality does not predict that one should observe other people surviving against steep odds, unless one’s own survival is contingent on it. So it wouldn’t favor quantum immortality over no quantum immortality.
You (well, half of you) have certainly survived an event that kills 99.999999...% of participants, your own conception. Is it an evidence for or against quantum immortality?
You (well, half of you) have certainly survived an event that kills 99.999999...% of participants, your own conception. Is it an evidence for or against quantum immortality?
Neither. It is the kind of anthropic thinking that would apply even in a classical universe and applies just as much to a quantum one.
This isn’t true but what if I wrote and you believed that “I survived an event that had a 1-10^(-50) probability of killing me.” Would this be evidence for you of quantum immortality?
Unless I’m laboring under a significant misunderstanding, quantum immortality does not predict that one should observe other people surviving against steep odds, unless one’s own survival is contingent on it. So it wouldn’t favor quantum immortality over no quantum immortality.
You (well, half of you) have certainly survived an event that kills 99.999999...% of participants, your own conception. Is it an evidence for or against quantum immortality?
Neither. It is the kind of anthropic thinking that would apply even in a classical universe and applies just as much to a quantum one.
Would it matter if I knew about the idea of quantum immortality before surviving the event?