Quantum Theology2

QUANTUM THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN
7.4 Immortality, Resurrection, Continuity of life
James Higgo points out that MWI may really imply the
immortality of Souls by using the Quantum Suicide experiment
as given by Tegmark:
In this suicide experiment we have a gun, which has a chance of
firing 50 percent of the time its trigger is pulled. If it does not
trigger the bullet it will only make a click sound. Now suppose
this gun is placed on the forehead of the experimenter and he
continue to pull the trigger. If the Many World Interpretation is
correct she will hear only audible clicks and not one single fire.
This is because she will not be there in the alternate world where
she had died. Others in 50% of the worlds will notice that he
died. But for him he still lives. The moral: One cannot commit
suicide at all. This is true not only of suicides but for every form
of death. You are immortal. You will never die.
But the interpretation should not stop there. Life is eternal and
will go on. But your choices make a difference in the quality of
your eternal life. If you make bad choices you will bring upon
yourself immense suffering along with all the rest of the cosmos
This will bring about a separation of the wheat and the chaff.
One group goes from bad to worse and others from good to
better. There are others who can turn around one group to
another. The large number of worlds allows for it all. If you
continue to choose wrongly it will lead to more and more decay
and suffering. This is hell indeed. If you choose wisely and
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