On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 19:24, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 10:04:22 AM UTC-5, smitra wrote: >> >> So, the best way to interpret the >> multiverse is to simply assume that all possible time snaps of universes >> exist as timeless entities. In classical physics, there is a one >> parameter family of parallel worlds with the same information content. >> In QM the information present in a world cannot in general be retrieved >> from another world, in general one needs to consider superpositions of >> different worlds. >> >> Saibal >> > > > > That's the basic problem: > > MW people believe in an informational (immaterial) reality, not a > material reality. > > So when they look at an apple, whether whole or split in two, it's just > information. > > Information can be multiplied without any cost: one can take a 0110 and > make !001 (~0110) in addition, because 0s and 1s are immaterial, and there > is no cost in making new information. > > But that is not the case with matter. > There are still the same conservation laws, regardless of the underlying metaphysics; which is why it is metaphysics. > -- 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%3D2ypXnLyQG54fZcJSKTx_j8bA3m8XeTiiZPD35dau08-PSLA%40mail.gmail.com.
