On 4/22/2014 4:28 PM, LizR wrote:
would like to read those papers but haven't had time yet.
On 23 April 2014 04:00, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 22 Apr 2014, at 02:03, Pierz wrote:
Just came across this presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
It's a bit long, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts who is
knowledgeable on QM. I don't follow the maths, but I kind of got the gist.
What
intrigued me was his interpretation of QM and I'm wondering if anyone can
throw any
more light on it. He makes a lot of jumps which are obviously clear in his
mind but
hard to follow. He says that MWI is supportable by the maths, but that he
prefers a
"zero universes" interpretation, according to which we are classical
simulations in
a quantum computer. I'm not sure I follow this. I mean, I can follow the
idea of
being a classical simulation in a quantum computer, but I can't see how
this is
different from MWI, except by the manoeuvre of declaring other universes to
be
unreal because they can never practically interact with 'our' branch. I
guess what
interested me was the possibility of a coherent alternative to MWI (because
frankly
MWI scares the willies out of me),
Me too. But at some deeper level my open-mindedness on this is "protected"
by an
even bigger fear: the fear to get it wrong.
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."'
--- Mark Twain
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