Editing Quantum suicide and immortality (section)

==History==
[[Hugh Everett III|Hugh Everett]] did not mention quantum suicide or quantum immortality in writing; his work was intended as a solution to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Eugene Shikhovtsev's biography of Everett states that "Everett firmly believed that his many-worlds theory guaranteed him immortality: his consciousness, he argued, is bound at each branching to follow whatever path does not lead to death".<ref>See Eugene Shikhovtsev's Biography of Everett: [http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/everett.html#e23 Keith Lynch remembers 1979–1980]</ref> Peter Byrne, author of a biography of Everett, reports that Everett also privately discussed quantum suicide (such as to play high-stakes [[Russian roulette]] and survive in the winning branch), but adds that "[i]t is unlikely, however, that Everett subscribed to this [quantum immortality] view, as the only sure thing it guarantees is that the majority of your copies will die, hardly a rational goal."<ref>{{cite book|last=Byrne|first=Peter|title=The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0199659241|pages=342}}</ref>

Among scientists, the thought experiment was introduced by Euan Squires in 1986.<ref>{{cite book|last=Squires|first=Euan|title=The Mystery of the Quantum World|publisher=Hilger|year=1986|isbn=9780852745656|pages=72–73}}</ref> Afterwards, it was published independently by [[Hans Moravec]] in 1987<ref name="Moravec1987">{{cite book |last=Moravec |first=Hans |year=1988 |title=Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence |chapter=The Doomsday Device |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Harvard |page=[https://archive.org/details/mindchildren00hans/page/188 188] |isbn=978-0-674-57618-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/mindchildren00hans|url-access=registration }}</ref> and Bruno Marchal in 1988;<ref name="Marchal1988">{{cite journal |last=Marchal |first=Bruno |year=1988 |title=Informatique théorique et philosophie de l'esprit |trans-title=Theoretical Computer Science and Philosophy of Mind |journal=Acte du 3ème colloque international Cognition et Connaissance [Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Cognition and Knowledge] |location=Toulouse, France |pages=193–227}}</ref><ref name="Marchal1991">{{cite journal |last=Marchal |first=Bruno |year=1991 |editor1-last=De Glas |editor1-first=M. |editor2-last=Gabbay |editor2-first=D. |title=Mechanism and personal identity |url=http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/M&PI_15-MAI-91.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Proceedings of WOCFAI 91 |location=Paris. Angkor |pages=335–345 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125125451/http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/M%26PI_15-MAI-91.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2020 |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> it was also described by [[Huw Price]] in 1997, who credited it to [[Dieter Zeh]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time|last=Price|first=Huw|publisher=OUP USA|year=1997|isbn=978-0195117981|pages=221–222|chapter=The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory}}</ref> and independently presented formally by [[Max Tegmark]] in 1998.<ref name="tegmark98">{{Cite journal |last=Tegmark |first=Max |date=November 1998 |title=The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words? |journal=Fortschritte der Physik |volume=46 |issue=6–8 |pages=855–862 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(199811)46:6/8<855::AID-PROP855>3.0.CO;2-Q |arxiv=quant-ph/9709032 |bibcode=1998ForPh..46..855T |s2cid=212466 |issn=0015-8208}}</ref> It was later discussed by philosophers Peter J. Lewis in 2000<ref name="dlewis">{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Peter J. |date=2000-01-01 |title=What is it like to be Schrödinger's cat? |url=https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article/60/1/22/105398 |journal=Analysis |volume=60 |pages=22–29 |doi=10.1093/analys/60.1.22|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and [[David Lewis (philosopher)|David Lewis]] in 2001.<ref>"[http://www.andrewmbailey.com/dkl/How_Many_Lives.pdf How Many Lives Has Schrödinger's Cat?]," ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'', Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 3–22; March 2004.</ref>