On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:01 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How is everything except one value in this world (the others dissipating > into the environment), WORSE than conjuring a multitude of universes for > the other values to be measured? >
One theory makes an assumption and the other, being more conservative, does not. > > > When you pull a slot machine, is it really conservative to assert 10 > million other universes come into being (along with the player!) for the > other unrealized outcomes in this universe? > If the universe is really infinite, not just very very big but INFINITE, then somewhere in that infinite universe there must be a collection of atoms that behaves in a Johnkclarkian way that observes every one of the 10 million states a slot machine can be in; and that's more than just conservative, there is no other way it could be. And if the multiverse is infinite then it wouldn't be a case of a branch coming into being but of determining which branch a rational observer is in. Based on known information many worlds assigns a complex number to every branch and the degree of certainty a rational agent would have for believing to be in that branch can be obtained by squaring the absolute value of that complex number. This is called The Born Rule. > > By replacing Decoherence with MWI seems to raise hugely more insoluble > problems than simply using the Decoherence model of dissipation of the > unrealized outcomes. > You're assuming there actually are unrealized outcomes, its true you can only see one outcome but that's exactly what is to be expected if you are duplicated along with all those other other outcomes. The point is you can't explain why they dissipate, Many Worlds can't explain it either but it doesn't need to because it says there are no unrealized outcomes . John K Clark -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
