On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 08:16, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.) > Pro-deterministic is not anti-probability. Also, pro-materialistic is no less “religious” than anti-materialistic, since there is no way to know that a true material world does or does not exist. When it comes to deciding which interpretation of reality to prefer, one can either use aesthetic considerations (Occam’s razor) or refuse to engage in discussion. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/CAH%3D2ypUUPduwPefu96NQZFn6-HBgJ%3DvbVmV1EMaCv0wSH%2BBwMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
