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Letter: Nth world problems

Published 8 October 2014

From Tony Beswick

Seth Lloyd enjoys the “marginalisation of humanity” wrought by the endless repeated worlds in the multiverse.

But the theory also implies each individual becomes infinitely extended in space and time by the ever-multiplying copies of their former selves. Is this ultimate human marginalisation? Or collective elevation to effective godhood? Each to their own!
Warley, West Midlands, UK

Issue no. 2990 published 11 October 2014

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