On 16 June 2015 at 12:17, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > > >The Schroedinger equation is perfectly computable. > > > Yes but that fact does us no good because Schrodinger's Wave Equation > doesn't describe anything observable, to get that you must square the > amplitude of the equation at a point and even then it will only give you > the probability you will observe the particle at that point. > > The many worlds of MWI are computable > > > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Schrodinger's Wave Equation has i > (the square root of -1) in it and i does strange things, like i^2=i^6 > =-1 and i^4=i^100=1. So that means you can't compute which one unique > branch of the multiverse that our universe will change with time into > because there is no such one unique branch. And for the same reason you > can't compute the one unique branch of the multiverse that our universe > has changes with time from. > > > we have 1p inderminacy, > > > To be deterministic things would need to evolve into one and only one > thing, but Schrodinger says that's not what happens. And a person is no > different from a non-person in that respect and consciousness has nothing > to do with it, NOTHING evolves into one and only one thing. So forget "1p" > , things are just indeterminate period. > > John K Clark >
The many worlds as an ensemble are determinate, but which world you will end up in is not. This is because you feel that you end up in only one world even though copies of you end up in multiple worlds. Subjectively (from the 1p perspective) you end up in one world, while objectively (from the 3p perspective) you end up in all. -- 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.
