On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 9:13 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:52 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> *I'm from Missouri; SHOW ME! * > > > I show you the double slit experiment. David Deutsch said if other worlds > are just a interpretation of the double slit experiment then dinosaur are > just a interpretation of dinosaur bones. I'm not sure I'd go quite as far > as Deutsch but I see what he's driving at. > > > I think Deutsch's point with this statement was not that many-worlds is as indisputable as dinosaurs, but that by calling many-worlds an interpretation, one is getting the explanatory arrow backwards. He says that dinosaurs are not an interpretation of fossils, but the very thing in the theory that explains the appearance of fossils. Likewise: Many-worlds are not an interpretation of QM, but the very thing in the theory that explains the appearance of collapse. Jason -- 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.
