For some reason google decided to post that last post just as I was about to remove "iirc".from in front of "recall".
I'm sure it had good reasons for doing so... On 10 March 2014 15:00, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 March 2014 14:54, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So exactly how has MWI dealt with this? Everett just sort of said it has >> to be that way, i.e. humans are like measuring instruments and so they make >> measurements which diagonalize their reduced density matrix (but not the >> whole density matrix). But there's not really a theory of consciousness >> that tells us how it's like a measuring instrument AND, even if there were, >> there's not a theory that tells us why it's OK to diagonalize a part of the >> density matrix, but not all of it, in some basis we choose. Note that >> this is a purely mathematical operation we choose to do - not some physical >> process. Omnes looks at the same mathematical process and says, once we've >> diagonalized the reduced density matrix we've predicted probabilities, and >> so we should be satisfied that one of them is realized and with the >> predicted frequency. >> > > I was thinking of decoherence, which I seem to recall iirc was worked out > maybe 15 years after Everett produced his thesis? > > If so, this isn't anything specifically to do with consciousness as far as > I know; I assume we should observe whichever part of the multiverse we're > entangled, and that we're entangled with it due to the various quantum > interactions that got that version of us there. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
