Quantum theory and simulation arguments both suggest that there are many copies of myself in the multiverse. From a first person subjective anticipation perspective, experiencing death as nothingness seems impossible so it seems like I should either anticipate my subjective experience continuing as one of the surviving copies, or the whole concept of subjective anticipation is confused. From a third person / God’s view, death can be thought of some of the copies being destroyed or a reduction in my “measure”, but I don’t seem to fear this, just as I didn’t jump in joy to learn about having a huge number of copies in the first place. The situation seems too abstract or remote or foreign to trigger my fear (or joy) response.
Does this meaningfully reduce the probability that you jump out of the way of a car or get screened for heart disease? The important thing isn’t whether you have an emotional fear response, but how the behavior pattern of avoiding generalizes.
Quantum theory and simulation arguments both suggest that there are many copies of myself in the multiverse. From a first person subjective anticipation perspective, experiencing death as nothingness seems impossible so it seems like I should either anticipate my subjective experience continuing as one of the surviving copies, or the whole concept of subjective anticipation is confused. From a third person / God’s view, death can be thought of some of the copies being destroyed or a reduction in my “measure”, but I don’t seem to fear this, just as I didn’t jump in joy to learn about having a huge number of copies in the first place. The situation seems too abstract or remote or foreign to trigger my fear (or joy) response.
Does this meaningfully reduce the probability that you jump out of the way of a car or get screened for heart disease? The important thing isn’t whether you have an emotional fear response, but how the behavior pattern of avoiding generalizes.