Indeed, in fact if many worlds is correct then for every second we are alive everything terrible that can possibly happen to us does in fact happen in some branching path.
In a universe that just spun off ours five minutes ago, every single one of us has been afflicted with sudden irreversible incontinence.
The many worlds theory has endless black comedy possibilities, I find.
edit: this actually reminds me of Granny Weatherwax in Lords and Ladies, when the Elf Queen threatens her with striking her blind, deaf and dumb she replies “You threaten me with this, I who is growing old?”. Similarly if many worlds is true then every single time I have crossed a road some version of me has been run over by a speeding car and is living in varying amounts of agony, making the AI’s threat redundant.
Indeed, in fact if many worlds is correct then for every second we are alive everything terrible that can possibly happen to us does in fact happen in some branching path.
In a universe that just spun off ours five minutes ago, every single one of us has been afflicted with sudden irreversible incontinence.
The many worlds theory has endless black comedy possibilities, I find.
edit: this actually reminds me of Granny Weatherwax in Lords and Ladies, when the Elf Queen threatens her with striking her blind, deaf and dumb she replies “You threaten me with this, I who is growing old?”. Similarly if many worlds is true then every single time I have crossed a road some version of me has been run over by a speeding car and is living in varying amounts of agony, making the AI’s threat redundant.