On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 1:26 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/7/2020 5:57 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > There is nothing that picks out one particular set of paths as preferred > in the many-worlds situation. > > > Sure you can. For example you can pick out the set of paths whose > statistics are within some bounds of the mean. > Assuming you know what the 'mean' is absent any experiment. Otherwise you are just cherry picking data to support your arbitrary theory. > One can only get that in a stochastic one-world model. > > > All paths occur in a stochastic one-world model too. > No they don't. They are possible, perhaps, but they do not necessarily occur. The only difference is that some probability measure is assumed as part > of the model. > And this gives one a principled reason for ignoring the paths that are not observed. Low probability has an independent meaning in the one-world case, so one is unlikely to observe a low probability set of results. Not impossible, but of low probability, where that means 'unlikely'. No comparable concept of probability is available in Many-worlds. 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/CAFxXSLSFXFe7JjNqThgXSH-bJvz879OV7EEu5ymNjU8iZuJ-BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
