On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 8:45:30 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 2 Feb 2020, at 04:48, Alan Grayson <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Can anyone offer a justification for this postulate, presumably at the > heart of the MWI? Clark? AG > > > It is a direct consequence of the assumption of mechanism, where physics > emerge from all computations (in arithmetic). So, you don’t need to > postulate a physical world to understand that all consistent computations > “happens”, and Everett formulation of QM can be seen as a conformation of > the mechanist theory of mind. > > A key point in both Mechanism and Everett is that although all > computations “happens”, they do not happen relatively to each other with > the same relative probabilities. That can be used to refute some “ethical > critics” that some people use against Everett. > > Bruno > > So if I put on my left shoe first today, there's must be a universe in which I put on my right shoe first. And then there are the many ways I can tie my shoe laces, each resulting in more universes. This is about the most ridiculous model conceivable, don't ya think? Put another way, this is just plain dumb. AG
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