On 3/31/2014 12:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
OK...you see an elegant explanation sBould the empirically observed fact
actually
not be.
But would even that alone have been remotely near the ballpark of things
taken
seriously, had there not been extreme quantum strangeness irreconcilable at
that time, with the most core, most fundamental accomplishments of science
to date?
MWI evacuates all weirdness from QM. It restores fully
- determinacy
- locality
- physical realism
The price is not that big, as nature is used to multiplied things, like the water
molecules in the ocean, the stars in the sky, the galaxies, etc.
Each time, the humans are shocked by this, and Gordiano Bruno get burned for saying that
stars are other suns, and that they might have planets, with other living being.
It is humbling, but not coneptually new, especially for a computationalist, which
explains the MW from simple arithmetic, where you need only to believe in the
consequence of addition and multiplication of integers.
The price is not having a unified 'self' - which many people would consider a big price
since all observation and record keeping which is used to empirically test theories
assumes this unity. If you observe X and you want to use that as empircal test of a
theory it isn't helpful if your theory of the instruments says they also recorded not-X.
Brent
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