On 1 April 2014 12:24, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/31/2014 5:53 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > On 1 April 2014 04:04, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Are you saying that the fact that we don't see many worlds is evidence > against many worlds? > > > No, the fact that whatever our instrument reads our *theory* says there > are infinitely many other readings. >
Is that just a psychological problem or do you think it implies the theory is wrong? If the theory were right, what should we expect to see? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
