On 9/8/2015 4:14 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 8 September 2015 at 20:48, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au
<mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
On 8/09/2015 8:40 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 8 September 2015 at 17:39, Bruce Kellett
<bhkell...@optusnet.com.au <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
On 8/09/2015 4:56 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
I will ask you the same question as I did Brent: do you
conclude from the fact that when you toss a coin it comes up
either as head or tails that the world does not split into
two parallel versions of you, one of which sees heads and
the other tails?
I would conclude that a coin toss does not provide any
evidence for multiple worlds or a split. The only evidence we
have from this data is that the outcome of the toss is
uncertain. There is no evidence there for any split of anything.
It is not evidence FOR a split but is it evidence AGAINST a split?
It is evidence that the assumption of a split is not necessary in
order to understand everyday happenings. So, by the application of
Occam's Razor, no split happens.
So you agree that we would still observe the probabilities we do if we
lived in a deterministic world in whaich all possibilities are realised?
It's more complicated than that; possibilities aren't the same as
probabilities. Probabilities are real numbers so we need an infinite
splitting and a measure on the splits.
Brent
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