On 1 November 2011 21:07, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > > This is where I am coming from: > > > > I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference > > between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us > > to notice). So assuming the everett interpretation, there is no > > collapse and there are two consciousnesses in equations like (3) > > representing "my consciousness" in two separate [infinite] bundles of > > universes). However they are no longer in a superposition (i.e. there > > is no interference between them going on, or as you say, off diagonal > > terms in the density matrix are virtually gone). So at each > > differentiation me and my different consciousnesses diverge. We have > > the same history (memories) but different futures. > > > > Just a note on terminological confusion. Superposition, AFAIK, just means a > linear combination of states. Therefore, two full decohered universes > are still in superposition, just no longer coherent. > > Am I getting this wrong? > > No I think it's me, I should have said "are no longer in a coherent > superposition" thanks please do pick me up on anything I get wrong, my QM > is a bit shaky. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
