Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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You know, on a particular word in a karaoke song that identifies this is the word we're talking about.
This is the specific Jacob or Kurt or Emily that we're talking about.
And in an Everettian picture in which the universe is splitting, I think a lot of us have this intuition that this karaoke ball, this Cartesian ego, is hopping.
At each moment the universe splits, there's now many, many, maybe uncountably many copies of us, and this Cartesian ego
stochastically or probabilistically jumps from the past pre-branching self.
to one of the post-branching selves in kind of a random way.
And this hopping is happening as the universe is branching.
And this is where the probabilities come from.
But notice this this is a process now.
It's a a
physical, metaphysical process of something actually hopping according to some rules.
And if that were the case, if we believe that were the case, then we would have a process to which we could begin to assign something like probabilities in a more well-defined sense.
We could take indexicals and say, no indexicals, take the Cartesian ego, the unique Cartesian ego, and ask which Jacob Barandess it inhabits.
Now this becomes a statement that doesn't involve
you know, just uh uh it it isn't just uh a statement that involves this irredu i irremovable, irreducible indexicality.
But but
Most advocates of Everdian quantum theory don't believe in a Cartesian ego.
And it's important that people who are
bringing that Cartesian ego intuition with them into the Everett approach, that they should be aware that this is not how the Everett approach is formulated.
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