X-Message-Number: 14198 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:31:31 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Repeated Experience Lee Corbin, #14192, writes > >Mike Perry in post #14183 has seemed to say that repeated >experience is of no account. > It seems to me that one is stuck with each experience being infinitely instantiated, if there is a multiverse such as David Deutsch imagines in *The Fabric of Reality*, and which I echo in my book too. It can't be avoided. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that "one infinity is as good as another"-- a stance of benevolence could and should at least be devoted to making the bad times statistically infrequent. So to your question about neo-Nazis setting up exact conditions of torture again, no, it would be proper to intervene and prevent this from happening. The intervention would, of course, introduce a new element that was not present the first time--it would be a different story with a happier ending. That alone is of positive value, though it would not erase the bad thing that also happened and will happen over and over. But trying to do good, and make the bad less frequent, should have advangages (I think very substantial advantages) in terms of enlightened self-interest, and that is really the basic reason to pursue such a course. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14198