On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 4:02:19 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > 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] 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. 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 >
I am arguing with in the MWI paradigm. As an interpretation it along with other interpretations are more metaphysics. LC -- 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.
