Posted: Apr 30, 2016 6:24 pm
And you have Max Tegmark using the 'popping into existence' description here, but I don't think that is correct, the right way to think of it is all the possible branched universes exist. There's already going to be some vast number 'behind' you, it's more accessible to my mind to have them all existing, the branching idea is too confusing if you really think about it. Just try to imagine how many branchings occur in a second universe-wide.
I also kind of laugh when you hear people pondering the 'copies' of themselves, even Tegmark's musings seem to be ridiculously lacking in imagination. It's an incredibly small subset of the yous that will be all that similar to you, and you won't exist in but a tiny tiny tiny insignificant fraction of the universes. And yet, there will be an astounding array of yous that you could never figure out what the difference was.
I also kind of laugh when you hear people pondering the 'copies' of themselves, even Tegmark's musings seem to be ridiculously lacking in imagination. It's an incredibly small subset of the yous that will be all that similar to you, and you won't exist in but a tiny tiny tiny insignificant fraction of the universes. And yet, there will be an astounding array of yous that you could never figure out what the difference was.