On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:05 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/14/2019 12:00 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:20 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > *> So it becomes probability of finding yourself in a particular >> world...which depends on a theory of consciousness * >> > > I'll be damned if i can see what consciousness has to do with it. The Born > rule would also give the probability a film camera with a automatic one > second timer will take a picture that when developed will turn out to be a > picture of Moscow. > > > But according to MWI it will also take a picture of Washington. The Born > rule isn't part of MWI...it has to derived (or more often just borrowed > from CI). Suppose the camera is triggered by the decay of a radioactive > atom and it is taking a picture of a clock. What time will it have on its > film? Must we suppose there are an uncountable infinity worlds with > different times recorded? > Yes, given MWI. Deutsch even requires an infinite number of parallel worlds, with "shadow" photons, even for the simple two-slit experiment. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLQ6K-1jL1n0zpETEKJ9GUENHJnQ5GpEzHnmETgcV2WW0Q%40mail.gmail.com.
