On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/2/2018 11:42 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 8:13:48 AM UTC-6, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> *Obviously, from a one-world perspective, only one history survives for a >> single trial. But to even grossly approach anything describable as >> "Darwinian", you have to identify characteristics of histories which >> contribute positively or negatively wrt surviving but I don't see an >> inkling of that. IMO, Quantum Darwinism is at best a vacuous restatement of >> the measurement problemt; that we don't know why we get what we get. AG* >> >>> >>> >>> > > In the *sum over histories* interpretation - of the double-slit > experiment, for example - each history carries a unit complex number - like > a gene - and this gene reenforces (positively) or interferes (negatively) > with other history's genes in the sum. > > > But I thought you said the ontology was that only one history "popped out > of the Lottery machine"? Here you seem to contemplate an ensemble of > histories, all those ending at the given spot, as being real. > > Brent >
All are real until all but one dies. RIP: All those losing histories. - pt -- 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.
