Talk:Quantum immortality

I can't find any reference for the term "fallacious insane nonsense"; indeed a Google search turns up no other cite than Wikipedia itself. If this is indeed a widely used term by detractors of this theory, and not just a colorful putdown, then a reference needs to be cited in order to maintain NPOV.

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Derek, you added emphasis for total nonsense and, while I am inclined to agree with you that it's nonsense, that emphasis also causes the article to take a non-neutral point of view. Simply stating it and layout out the counter-argument in the following paragraph is sufficient. -- Nate Silva

You've got completely the wrong impression. I worked out the immortality consequence of the Many Worlds Interpretation in the early 1990's and have had a humourous page on the Web describing it since 1995, two years before Tegmark published his paper. See http://www.arbroath.win-uk.net/life (That page is now defunct but it has been more recently transferred to http://www.fisheracre.freeserve.co.uk/life ).

Given that, I'm hardly likely to think that the idea is nonsense, let alone try to slant the article to indicate that it is. The only reason that I added emphasis was to point out that the words insane fallacious nonsense were a quote, not that they were true from an NPOV. I don't know where the quote came from and I certainly didn't add it to the article. If you want to de-emphasise it, fine. The article is pretty balanced either way. -- Derek Ross 19:57 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)

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I love the phrase "fallacious insane nonsense" -- FIN should be a new acronym. I just got the wrong idea from the emphasis: that the article was siding with that idea. Sorry for the confusion. -- Nate

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Im not well read on this theory, but wouldnt the answer to how alternate-universe physicists possibly survive the nuclear bomb, is bc there will be alternate universes in which the bomb was not set off? or indeed universes where the individual never became a physicist at all? Vroman 22:22 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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I've removed the following addition by User:Harry Potter:

Another criticism suggests that the experiment confuses the infinite with the boundless - i.e. a sphere has a boundless surface which is neverthless not infinite. The physicist merely experiences their life regardless of whether or not this is seen from a many-worlds interpretation or not.

There is no indication of why boundlessness is relevant to the discussion. Please feel free to explain. -- Oliver P. 23:44 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)