> On 4 Oct 2019, at 19:45, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 8:12:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 3 Oct 2019, at 21:07, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/3/2019 10:44 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 12:39:09 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 10/3/2019 6:29 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> > Why would the energy of a branch be related to its probability of >>> > occurrance? One can imagine a very low probability, so low that it >>> > can't even contain copies of the experimenter. Totally ridiculous! AG >>> >>> It it's probability were zero would you still count its energy? >>> >>> Brent >>> >>> >>> >>> But MWI eliminates probabilities. >> >> That's its problem. But it has to explain the appearance of probabilities. > > Everett extracts it from the first person indeterminacy is > self-superposition, which is the very idea of the MW or Many-histories. In > his long text, He uses Mechanism quasi-explicitly. Its only problem is that > he has to extracts the wave from *all* computation, and incompleteness makes > this happens. The “worlds” are just computations seen from the self-aware > creature supported by those computations. > > > Bruno > > > > > That is a good analysis of Everett Many Worlds, which is in stark contrast to > a materialist (observer-free) quantum mechanics. > > But Many Worlds is another indication of physicists leaving the material > world behind and entering a world of immateriality.
Indeed, and that is a necessity when we assume the mechanist hypothesis in the philosophy of mind/cognitive science. Bruno > > @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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/44f02a8e-3b21-4ea5-acb8-5f7b1dfabd5e%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/44f02a8e-3b21-4ea5-acb8-5f7b1dfabd5e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/9CF0411D-12A3-4627-8D1F-7D9B2B18A26D%40ulb.ac.be.
