Many Worlds leads Sean Carroll to speculate about the morality of duplicated selves when they bach off into other worlds.
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1176617631408775168 *Congressional votes do not *cause* the wave function to branch, but unlikely quantum events can bring into existence branches where classically unlikely outcomes have occurred. A nucleus might decay in the right Representative's brain at just the right time, etc.* He asks: "If You Existed in Multiple Universes, How Would You Act In This One?" https://lithub.com/if-you-existed-in-multiple-universes-how-would-you-act-in-this-one/ (From Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll) But he gives away the game here: "To each individual on some branch of the wave function, life goes on just as if they lived in a single world with truly stochastic quantum events." Maybe there's a Sean Carroll branch that loves stochasticity. Many Worlds (a religion, or quasi-religion, but not science) is fundamentally an anti-probabilities superstition. And anti-materialist as well. Those who think we are pure information - platotonist bits - have no problem with the idea of multiple copies of things here and now being made, because there is no new material needed. (The religious aspect of Many Worlds has been made apparent with the promotion - Carroll's own tweets, for example - of the book.) @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b548d5c0-d746-42c6-a960-60f419ae771e%40googlegroups.com.
