From: *Jason Resch* <jasonre...@gmail.com <mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com>>
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 9:13 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com
<mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:52 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com
<mailto: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.
You have evidence for dinosaurs other than from fossils?
Likewise:
Many-worlds are not an interpretation of QM, but the very thing in the
theory that explains the appearance of collapse.
It is an interpretation of QM without the projection postulate. There
are other ways of explaining the appearance of collapse --
epistemological theories, for example. It is difficult to explain the
existing fossils without postulating the existence of dinosaurs a few
hundred million years ago.
Bruce
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