On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 5:24:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/14/2019 2:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:05 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> 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. > > > There's a technical reason MWI needs an infinite number of branches. It's > only in the statistical limit that one can guarantee that the sample > probabilities agree with the Born rule. > > Brent >
But Sean Carroll would have to say in his book tour that if he was watching the dots appear on the screen one by one there would literally be an infinite number of actual worlds, each one with their very own own Sean Carroll seeing (and remembering) a different temporal dot process than all the other Seans. @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/0b819ba1-8026-43dd-ab0a-6f8c53dc5650%40googlegroups.com.
