On 6/16/2018 12:34 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 2:25:20 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 6/16/2018 2:02 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:
One hour ago I had coffee. You are now in universe U, where I
had
coffee. Hadn't I had coffee this morning, you would now be in
universe
U', where I didn't have coffee. I guess you could say that I
created
universe U, but I don't think I will be worshiped has a god
any time
soon. *
*
*
Applying the MWI to this situation, it would look something like
this; you go into a restaurant and have coffee. As a result,
immediately, another universe is created which has a copy of you,
inclusive of your memories, where you DON'T to go into the
restaurant. Can't the see the foolishness of what the MWI
assumes? Namely, everything that's possible to happen, MUST
happen. AG *
Yes, that's a common conclusion and presumably why this is called
the "everything-list". It isn't actually an implication of QM
though. QM forbids lots of things,
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702121v1
<https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702121v1>. And MWI is just an
interpretation. We don't have a quantum theory of spacetime and
when we do it may rule out the MWI. So one shouldn't become too
invested in it or it's contrary.
Brent
Yes, MWI is just an interpretation that is meant to make QM palatable
to our macroscopic or classical-ish ideas on reality. There is no
creation of separate worlds really. The superposition of states exists
prior to and after an observation or decoherent event. It is just that
with this "EVENT" an observer or decoherent set of information is
carried along one superposition in the Hilbert space, while of course
there are other such superpositions as well. Somehow, and Dieter Zeh
had this idea of "many minds interpreation," we are conscious of one
path.
Because each of "we" is numerous.
But it seems you have not heeded my warning about taking MWI too
seriously. You write as though it were well established fact.
Brent
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