On 27 March 2014 15:36, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 3/26/2014 7:05 PM, LizR wrote:
>
> I've read Mr Kent's paper, or most of it (I'm afraid with limited time I
> skipped a few bits that seemed incoherent to my fuzzy brain at least) and I
> have to admit it didn't appear to say anything for or against the MWI
> except that (a) he obviously doesn't like it, and (b) some people have
> apparently misunderstood some of its implications (or perhaps (c) 
> *nobody*understands its implications, which would put it in the same position
> quantum theory was in for at least its first 50 years, though without the
> experimental successes to bolster belief that it's correct).
>
> His proposed test doesn't strike me as terribly useful, if only because he
> seems to have roughly approximated the reproductive strategies of (most)
> male and female animals that care for their young - the males tend to
> follow the "tripe or bust" strategy, the females the "slow and steady" one,
> for reasons that I believe are obvious to any evolutionary biologist.
>
>
> It's not obvious to me.  Did you take a poll to support your guess?
>
> No, I just read a lot of books on evolutionary biology.

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