>-----Original Message----- >From: Bruno Marchal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:58 AM >To: Brent Meeker >Subject: Re: many worlds theory of immortality > > > >Le 14-avr.-05, � 13:53, Brent Meeker a �crit : > >> Before drawing drastic conclusions, like QTI, from the multiple-worlds >> (or >> better, the relative state) interpretation of QM, it would be good to >> remember >> that it is just one of several intepretations. Bohm's interpretation >> will >> leave you as dead as classical physics. So will Penrose's and other >> modified >> theories with real collapse of the wave-function. My personal >> favorite is >> decoherence (Zurek, Joos, Zeh, et al) with a lower bound on non-zero >> probabilities as outlined by Omnes. > >Omnes is just everett + a new axiom asserting the uniqueness of the >universe. >Bohm is everett + a new axiom based on a (non covariant) potential >guiding some >prefered observable result (particle's positions). >Decoherence $is$ everett (as people can understand by reading his long >text. > >Bruno
That's essentially my understanding; except that now decoherence and einselection are understood to be responsible for the emergence of classical behavoir - which I think Everett did not consider. Brent Meeker
