> On 16 Jul 2018, at 23:04, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/16/2018 8:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like to think that this were the case, but you keep coming up with 
>>> irrelevancies that contradict the straightforward account of these 
>>> phenomena. If you forget about the metaphysics and just concentrate on 
>>> Alice and Bob making real measurements and recording them in their lab 
>>> books, then all these superfluities vanish. There are no counterfactuals, 
>>> no worries with other unobserved worlds, and Bell's theorem goes through 
>>> exactly as he intended. Many-worlds does not invalidate Bell's argument. In 
>>> fact, deflecting Bell's theorem would do no more than allow for the 
>>> possibility of a local hidden variable account. That alone does not prove 
>>> that many-worlds is local -- that would still have to be established by 
>>> developing such a local hidden variable theory. No one has to date 
>>> developed such a theory. But since Bell's theorem has not been deflected, 
>>> we do not have to worry about such contingencies.
>> 
>> 
>> So we really agree. You have been probably misguided when trying to defend 
>> John Clark who claimed that there are still FTL influence in Everett, when 
>> the Bell’s inequality relations implies FTL only when we assume unique 
>> outcomes of the experiences (i.e. some collapse, or Bohm’s type of hidden 
>> variable).
>> 
>> No need of patronizing remark either, especially when rephrasing what I was 
>> just saying. If you agree that there is no FTL in the many-worlds, we do 
>> agree, that was the point I was making to J. Clark. Not sure why you 
>> defended it, especially that you have shown implicitly that you have no 
>> problem with the step 3 of the Universal Dovetailer Paradox. You might 
>> eventually understand that with mechanism, Everett’s task is still 
>> incomplete, as we need to justify the wave from all computations, as seen 
>> from some self-referential modes (fortunately and constantly implied by 
>> incompleteness).
> 
> Not to reignite the argument, but it originated because Bruno claimed that 
> MWI does away with non-locality in QM.

Precisely, I claim MWI does with the FTL influence. 

(Non locality + single world (or hidden variable))  entails FTL.
(MW + Non locality) does not.

Bruno



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