From: John Burgeson (burgythree@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 16:31:56 EDT
>>It can't be intersubjectively tested, only
subjectively tested. I replied to Burgy about this
off-line, it is based on an article by Max Tegmark.>>
I will argue that it CAN be objectively tested, in that (if it is true)
there will necessarily be one universe in which the experimenter will find
himself (or herself) still alive after n experimental runs where n is any
number desired. In that universe both the experimenter and all who watch it
can be assured within any odds desired that the theory is confirmed.
Verisimilitudinously, of course.
I have a link to one discussion of it on page 2, section 11 of my web site.
Fascinating idea. The best discussion of it is to be found in NEW SCIENTIST
for December 1997.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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