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According to the many-worlds hypothesis, there's a virtually infinite amount of alternate realities, one for every choice every human took, yes?
Meaning that every time I choose not to brush my teeth, a new world comes to reality.
Meaning that, in this infinite quantity of worlds, the must be one where I was born the opposite gender, yes?

Suppose I'd find a way to traverse the barrier and find a new world of these, specifically one where I'm of the opposite sex.
Suppose I meet myself and unknowingly have sex with my opposite-gender self and impregnate her.
We decide to let the fetus become a baby.
Is that baby a complete clone of myself, or of her if it's a female?
Or would it just roll the same dice twice instead of rolling two different dices in the biological formation?

Would it be as if I had a baby with my sister, due to our biological signature being exact the same, the baby would be born completely bonkers?
Theoretically, what would happen?

>> No.9526018

>>9526012
Go fuck yourself

>> No.9526028

>>9526012
No, the offspring of two clones is not a clone since alleles are chosen randomly. So if you have a heterozygous gene then the offspring could have the same gene or one of two different homozygous versions.

>> No.9526029

>>9526018
pottery

>> No.9526054

>>9526012
>infinite amount of alternate realities
This is stupid

>> No.9526096

>>9526054
infinite potential for information acquisition makes a lot of sense

>> No.9526097

True. Even if the leaf on a tree was yellow instead of brown, that would be an alternate universe.

>> No.9526136

>>9526012
Read "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold, and
"All you Zombies" by Robert A Heinlein.
They cover all the situations you described and a whole lot more.

IF the many-worlds was true (which is not what Everett wrote in his thesis. It's a popular mis-conception) every zig of an electron causes a split. There are 10^googoplex^googoplex versions of "you" which didn't brush this morning.

These hypothetical alternatives are forever isolated from you. "Crossing over" would be equivalent to "un-collapsing" the wave-function and re-running the experiment.
Look, you know you can measure position or momentum as accurately as you like -- at the cost of destroying any knowledge of the variable you didn't measure. A "do over" would allow you to check both.
You see why that's out?

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9526333

>>9526018
that's the whole point

>>9526028
what about the fact that it'd be "myself"? being incestuous, would the child be born retarded?

>>9526136
i'll look those up but I didn't understand shit about what you said

>> No.9526403

>>9526333
The technical part of >>9526136 just means that we're forever cut off from the other branches of the wave-form (assuming they really exist.)

Several writers have made good stories out of "what if we could travel 'sideways'?" H. Beam Piper. Keith Laumer. Larry Niven took the concept to its logical extreme. Detective trying to figure out the cause of the recent wave of random, senseless crime - a wave which began after Crosstime travel became a reality. If the world continually fissions, every choice you make really isn't a "choice". You do A in one world and not-A in another. So nothing really matters. Why not rob that bank? If you don't, another "you" will. Why not kill someone? Why not rape that pretty girl?
In some alternatives you're reading this and dismissing it as philosophical nonsense. In another, you're taking it very seriously.

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9526460

>>9526333

>Go fuck yourself
>that's the whole point

>> No.9526481

>>9526012
>Meaning that every time I choose not to brush my teeth, a new world comes to reality.
no. it means that every moment trillions upon trillions of new realities come into existence because you twitched your finger a centimeter when you could've twitched it 2 centimeters, also because of all the countless things you aren't doing in this moment

it's retarded just forget about it

>> No.9526662

>>9526481
but this is a hypothetical biology questions, not actually a theoretical physics question

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9526674

>>9526136
>Robert A Heinlein
>Reading fascist authors

>> No.9526691

>>9526012
>the many-worlds hypothesis
The opposite of science.

>> No.9526759

>>9526674
>Heinlein
>fascist
?

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9526792

>>9526674
>>9526759
If you're reading this post, you are reading a fascist author

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9526910

>>9526759
Are you proud of your ignorance?

>> No.9526957

>>9526333
>what about the fact that it'd be "myself"? being incestuous, would the child be born retarded?
The entire reason that incest is harmful is because you increase the chance of the offspring having homozygous recessive genes, which can be harmful. So yeah it has a good chance of being retarded.