-scerir: IMO Schroedinger invented this manyworlds or manyminds or manywords interpretation.
-AG: I disagree. He's clearly criticizing the idea that all possible measurements are manifested in reality, which surely suggests other people were advancing a theory he strongly disliked. . https://groups.google.com/d/optout ### G Bacciagaluppi writes, in philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8876/1/beable3.pdf The picture of the two cats, while surely an overinterpretation o f Schroedinger’s own views, may resonate with modern Everettians. In fact, if the above remarks on mass density as the three-dimensional manifestation ofthe Hilbert-space wave function are correct, then this picture just is the Everett interpretation. The difference to the usual presentations in terms of Hilbert-space components of the wave function that constitute “worlds”, is merely that here the emphasis is on the three-dimensional manifestation of the different components of the wave function. As remarked by Bitbol (Schroedinger 1995, p. 17), it also resonates with some of Schroedinger’s own words (with the appropriate qualifications and warnings about overinterpretation): 'Nearly every result [a quantum theorist] pronounces is about the probability of this or that or that... happening — with usually a great many alternatives. The idea that they be not alternatives but all really happen simultaneously seems lunatic to him, just impossible. He thinks that if the laws of nature took this form for, let us say, a quarter of an hour, we should find our surroundings rapidly turning into a quagmire, or sort of a featureless jelly or plasma, all contours becoming blurred, we ourselves probably becoming jelly fish. It is strange that he should believe this.' (Schroedinger 1995, p. 19) -- 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.
