I really hope someone will do some serious philosophy about Quantum Immortality soon. The only thing I’ve seen is an article (a very pessimistic one) about it by David Lewis from about 15 years ago. It just feels way too important to be left to random lesswrongers to speculate on.
The 20th-century physicists speculated a lot about it. Schrodinger’s Cat, the Wigner’s Friend problem, etc. But in the absence of a test for consciousness they mostly went on to other things.
I’ve never heard that it occurred to any of them (aside from Hugh Everett) that quantum mechanics might imply something like quantum immortality, though.
I really hope someone will do some serious philosophy about Quantum Immortality soon. The only thing I’ve seen is an article (a very pessimistic one) about it by David Lewis from about 15 years ago. It just feels way too important to be left to random lesswrongers to speculate on.
The 20th-century physicists speculated a lot about it. Schrodinger’s Cat, the Wigner’s Friend problem, etc. But in the absence of a test for consciousness they mostly went on to other things.
I’ve never heard that it occurred to any of them (aside from Hugh Everett) that quantum mechanics might imply something like quantum immortality, though.