On 12 May 2014 12:37, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:26:59AM +1200, LizR wrote: > > > > I'm told the worlds of the MWI include a vanishingly small proportion of > > weird universes because decoherence gets rid of mixed states. I don't > know > > enough to say whether this is a viable explanation, I just have to accept > > it - but this, or something like it, may be responsible for making the > > white rabbits vastly improbable (there was something similar in Theory of > > Nothing - which I see gets a plug from Max Tegmark in his latest book, by > > the way, which I hope is to the good). I can't recall how TON got rid of > > them (something to do with extra bits beyond those needed to specify a > > stable universe being self-cancelling or not easily visible, or...?) > > > > That explains why sales of ToN have ticked up recently! > Good. (I imagine Max owes a few of his ideas to it.) > > I'm not going to try and explain in detail here how my White Rabbit > busting argument works - the best explanation is still in my book, and > a slightly earlier version of the same argument is in "Why Occams > Razor". > I re-read your book recently, too! (And Bruno's and Max's...) > > But I can give a hint that it involves the robust nature of observer's > pattern recognition systems. Most of those "white rabbits" are > indistinguishable from a little bit of noise around our normal stable > observation. Only a vanishing few a truly extraordinary - white > rabbits with waistcoats and pocket watches, or fire breathing dragons, > and we're extremely unlikely to see these. > Yes I had the feeling it was something to do with them being unnoticeable by most observers most of the time, but the details, as usual, seem to have gone down a hole in my memory... -- 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.
