On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 6:39:11 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > > From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > If there is a FTL physical influence, even if there is no information > transfer possible, it leads to big problems with any reality interpretation > of special relativity, notably well described by Maudlin. Maudlin agrees > that many-mind restore locality, and its “many-mind” theory is close to > what I think Everett had in mind, and is close to what I defended already > from the mechanist hypothesis. To be sure, Albert and Lower Many-Minds > assumes an infinity of mind for one body, where in mechanism we got an > infinity of relative body for one mind, but the key issue is that all > measurement outcomes belongs to some mind. The measurement splits locally > the observers, and propagate at subliminal speed. > > > I don't think that the many-minds interpretation is really what you would > want to support. In many-minds, the physical body is always in the > superposition of all possible results, but the 'mind' can never be in such > a superposition, so stochastically chooses to record only one definite > result from the mix. In the Wikipedia article on the many-minds > interpretation, the following comment might be relevant for you: > > "Finally, [many-minds] supposes that there is some physical distinction > between a conscious observer and a non-conscious measuring device, so it > seems to require eliminating the strong Church–Turing hypothesis > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis#Philosophical_implications> > or postulating a physical model for consciousness." > > If machines can do something that the mind cannot do (viz., be in a > superposition of all possible results, when the mind cannot participate in > any such superposition), the Church-Turing thesis goes out the window -- > and you might not want to say "Yes, Doctor". >
This is my understanding as well. The many mind interpretation says that the mind is what splits, or that the mind can only perceive on world at a time. The mind then generates the illusion of there being a single world at one time. 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.
