--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed there seems to be a conflict between MWI of QM and the feeling of
> consciousness. QM evolves unitarily to preserve total probability, which
> implies that the splitting into different quasi-classical subspaces reduces
> the measure of each subspace. But there's no perceptible diminishment of
> consciousness. I think this is consistent with the idea that consciousness
> is a computation, since in that case the computation either exists or it
> doesn't.
> Two copies don't increase the measure of a computation and reducing it's
> vector in Hilbert space doesn't diminish it.
If that is so then how do you explain the Born rule?
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