From: mlfasf@comcast.net   
      
   On 4/8/22 8:03 PM, the Moderator (JT) wrote:   
   >   
   > What do you mean by the word "meaningful"?   
   >   
      
   If I were ever able to take an actual long-term, high-speed space   
   voyage,  I'm sure I would often wonder what my wife back home was doing   
   "right now".  I definitely wouldn't believe that she had ceased to exist   
   just because we were separated.   
      
   If she exists "right now", then she must be doing something specific   
   right now. And that "doing something right now" is associated with a   
   certain unique state of her brain right now.  And each unique state of   
   her brain corresponds to a unique specific time in her life.  So I would   
   regard her current age during each instant in my life on my trip as   
   being completely meaningful to me.   
      
   And if my maneuvering on my trip resulted in my calculating that she was   
   exactly the same age at two widely separated instants in my life, I   
   would just say "WOW, isn't that interesting!".  I would believe it.  It   
   would be completely meaningful to me.   
      
      
   [[Mod. note -- So basically you're saying that what you observe is   
   meaningful to you, regardless of whether anything else in the universe   
   is affected.   
   -- jt]]   
      
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