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I don't buy quantum immortality as a necessary consequence of many-worlds. There are some rather dodgy steps in the logic -- in particular the one that says that "you" can't find your personal experiences going down a branch where your existence gets terminated. Surely somebody has to be there to subjectively experience having a bullet blast a hole in their skull?

Personally I think if you tried that, even if many-worlds is true, you'd almost certainly wind up dead.



That "you" can be you in other people's mind as described by Hofstadter in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop




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