On 21 Jan 2017, at 21:39, Brent Meeker wrote:
Phillip Ball's critique of MWI.
It can make sense in a non mechanist theory of mind, but ... where is
that theory? Where is the "Heisenberg cut". (I have not yet complete
the reading of that note, though).
The MWI is not born with Everett, but with the Einstein/Bohr debate,
and eventually with von Neuman collapse of the wave theory. The
collapse of the wave is just a very mysterious happening,
contradicting the SWE, and invented to suppress the many-worlds which
are implied by the SWE. The non-many-world theory is just the theory
saying that quantum mechanics is false, that it does not apply to
"me". It is the coquetry of the one who want to be one and only one.
But it is consistent (which is cheap) and possible in case the brain
does not act like a machine, but that is, in this context, a highly
speculative assumption making everything more complicated. It is never
a good idea to make a theory more complex to favor one's religious
belief, like the belief is a unique physical universe.
Bruno
Brent
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Use this MWI to access the Aeon article. Sorry
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