On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 12:16:57 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift 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. >
*How do you distinguish stochastic probability from quantum probability? AG * > > 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/5f7de745-e562-4693-a355-48d00aa5e7f4%40googlegroups.com.
