On 24 Feb 2015, at 22:52, Bruce Kellett wrote:
LizR wrote:
On 24 February 2015 at 14:23, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]
>> wrote:
And I don't see anything incoherent about true randomness. We
seem
to have done well with it for a century. If you can accept
randomness due to ignorance which can never be informed, why not
inherent randomness.
It is of course possible that the universe works on "oracles" like
this, this is just my personal bias towards explanations that don't
require infinite amounts of "in-principle unknowable" data to be
injected into physics. But I admit I could be wrong to have that
bias.
You must have difficulty with quantum mechanics, then. QM is built
on a lot of "in-principle unknowable" data. Hidden variable theories
of QM do not really work, so that in radioactive decay, for
instance, the time of any particular decay, and whatever it might be
that caused that nucleus to decay now rather than at some other
time, is "in-principle unknowable".
MWI simply formalizes the fact that such data are "in-principle
unknowable".
Well, usually we say that the SWE formalizes that fact, and that the
MWI interpret this in term of many world. But I am OK with your
statement, as SWE implies formally the MWI, if we define world by a
structure of events close for interaction. Then, using the FPI, we
have a dterlministic and local account of why the data appears for the
observer first person (plural) point of view as unknowable,
indeterminist and non local.
Bruno
Bruce
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