Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

Rediscovering the Mind 49the question is so basic that it almost seems to defy clearformulation in words. And the answer does not seem to beforthcoming from quantum mechanics. In fact, this is exactly thecollapse of the wave function reappearing at the far end of therug as it was shoved under by Everett. It turns it into aproblem of personal identity, no less perplexing than theoriginal problem it replaces.One can fall even more deeply into the pit of paradox whenone realizes that there are branches of this one giganticallybranching universal wave function on which there is no evidencefor quantum mechanics whatsoever, branches on which there is noEverett or many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.There are branches on which this entire Reflection got writtenexactly as you see it here, except that ended with a differentflutzpah.D.R.H