X-Message-Number: 17982 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:20:28 +1030 From: William Henderson <> Subject: reality check for truths sake --------------D5EB76FDB236B63C3926E93E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Excerpt from: Message #17976 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:24:05 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Re: MWI and waves Perry: Again, identity of indiscernibles makes it unnecessary to assume more than one *identical* copy of you exists at any given instant (though the full implications of this are rather profound). Yes the implications of this are profound! What a frightening specter it is to see that once rational researchers are going so far out of the limb of implausibility. Come on! Even one identical copy of me is ridiculous. Look, if you want to postulate other universes to help with your wave theory OK, but where, oh where is that dependable scientific RATIONALITY. Duplicates of every human being on some duplicate planet in some duplicate solar system? Please wake up and smell the roses! The problem I think is that theory has gone too far without DEFINITE evidence to correlate the direction of the theory. Perhaps the guidelines of evidence for the foundations of a theory needs to be revised as we try to go into the paradoxical world of quantum waves. I think I need to here remind everyone of an ancient theory that was proved through philosophy and deduction to be true even though in reality it was not. I can't quite remember the theorist name form my first year in philosophy, something like, Heracules. He put forward the theory that a hare could never catch up to a tortoise of the tortoise had a small head start. It took a hundred years before the theory could be proved wrong. The problem with what we are theorizing about today is that we don't have the over view of rationality that says, 'of course in reality the hare would easily catch and pass the hare'. So our theories could go into the ridiculous as Heracules did, only without us knowing it. To postulate duplicates of us existing to substantiate a theory needs a long step back and a pause of rationality, no matter what the theorist THINK the evidence may be. Come on guys: REALITY CHECK PLEASE. William Henderson. --------------D5EB76FDB236B63C3926E93E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17982