Re: Multiverse Morality

  
>On Thursday, 23 May 2013 hibssa wrote
>I see this as really key to understanding the wider worldview expressed by Popperians. 
>The big mistake I notice from non-popperians regarding MWI are the moral implications. For them, typically, the implication is that there is no morality because everything that can >happen will happen somewhere, with nothing special attached to what happens 'here'. 

>The reality is clearly different, and, I think....possibly this is the source of the attachment of Popperians to the counter-intuitive. 

>The true moral implications are actually really stunning and profound. Definitely putting morality to the centre of everything...above even physical reality itself in a way. 

>Only by living purposefully...being consistent...being philosophically correct....not compromising on principle, not living arbitrarily, not living altruistically...only by doing these things >can you in this one universe exert influence into the multiverse itself, and ultimately shape who you are.
I know it is a rather late reply but I noticed that no one answered to your candid post.
Let me explain my position as an "anti-popperian" 
I read your post. I think I understood it. Unfortunately your effort to come up with some type of morality from MWI belief does not seem convincing to me.  
The whole premise of morality (at least in the classical sense) is based on moral agents making choices in the way they act (out of multiple options) and their choices making a meaningful existential and circumstantial difference in themselves and in the world they live. In MWI world, the moral agent's choice looses its significance. Actually the moral agent him/herself looses its significance and meaning. 
In MWI, there are infinite number of moral agents and they do choose every possible option anyway in infinite number of universes. Why would the choice of one particular self in one of the infinite number of universes make a meaningful difference from the perspective of multiverse existence? We know all possible universes do exist right? And they do not have any superiority or uniqueness with respect to others according to MWI. There is nothing special in any of the universes. We can not say one universe would be "better" than the other.
Or should we say it? There would be universes which are "better" than others from consistency, purposefulness and correctness perspective.  Shall we try to be in the best possible universe? Why I would have such motivation if I already know that all other lower morality universes would exist in parallel whatever I choose and in the end I am not making any difference from the overall existential perspective?
Ismail Atalay 

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