Quantum suicide and immortality
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment.
MP4403 It was originally published independently by Hans Moravec in 1987 and Bruno Marchal in 1988 and was independently developed further by Max Tegmark in 1998. It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett
MTD2005 many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schr?dinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view.Quantum immortality refers to the subjective experience of surviving quantum suicide regardless of the odds.In their speculative work on
pcf7947 the topic of future science and artificial intelligence, authors Goertzel and Bugaj,describe a very different metaphysical notion as quantum immortality, one they claim is applicable in all circumstances, for every intelligent entity, and that serves as a means of "transfer" to
2SK30A other universes.Keith Lynch recalls that Everett took great delight in paradoxes such as the unexpected hanging. Everett did not mention quantum suicide or quantum immortality in writing, but his work was intended as a solution to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Lynch said Everett firmly believed that his many-worlds
SOC1041 theory guaranteed him immortality: His consciousness, he argued, is bound at each branching to follow whatever path does not lead to death,Tegmark explains, however, that life and death situations don't normally hinge upon a sequence of binary quantum events like those in the thought experiment.