On 10 May 2016 at 02:50, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/9/2016 12:52 AM, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: > > Saibal Mitra: > > > And this is the core of the disagreement, you say that the results are > already there, but in the MWI this is false. In the MWI the cat is not > either dead or alive before you open the box, the superposition has > become entangled with the environment, but both branches are relevant > until you get to know the result. > > It seems (to me) interesting this quote from Nicolas Gisin "Against Many- > Worlds", > ch. 4 of the paper ' Are There Quantum Effects Coming from Outside Space-time? > Nonlocality, free will and "no many-worlds" ' > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.3440.pdf > > "On the contrary, I do not see any explanatory power in the many worlds: it > seems > to be made just to prevent one from asking (possibly provocative) questions. > Moreover, it has built in it the impossibility of any test: all its > predictions are identical > to those of quantum theory. For me, it looks like "cushion for laziness" > (un coussin de paresse in French). > > > It avoids the otherwise puzzling question of, "When does the wave function > collapse? Why is a measurement different from other physical > interactions?" QBism provides one answer, but at the cost of losing a kind > of absolute objectivity. Other solutions, like Bohm and GRW, postulate > truly different physics that produce collapse. > > And there is a second, decisive, reason to > reject > the many-worlds view: it leaves no space for free will." > > > That's a silly reason. Daniel Dennett, in his book *Elbow Room*, > explains that even Laplacian determinism leaves us all the free will worth > having. >
Moreover, even if MWI did somehow destroy free will, causing some people consternation as a result, that would have no bearing on its truth. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
