On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 12:48:06 PM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: > But that works only if the copies are generated in the actual quantum coin > tossing experiment -- they can't be pre-existing because then the idea > doesn't work -- there is no causal connection between the experiments and > the copies. The issue then is how the Schrodinger equation generates all > these copies.
I am wondering, is it really necessary that the split into copies occurs at measurement? Would it not be possible that all the copies of worlds already exist before the measurement, evolving in the same way until the moment of measurement, and at the moment of measurement their evolutions start to differ? Causality may be just a regularity in the temporal sequence of states of a world where a particular state of the world is logically derived from a prior state of the world and from the regularity. But at the moment of measurement this regularity is broken, which may just mean that the state of the world after the measurement cannot be logically derived from a prior state of the world and from a regularity; still there may be a regularity on the level of the multiverse in the way the particular worlds start to differ from each other at the moment of measurement, and this regularity gives proportions of different worlds after the measurement and thereby probabilities that we exist in a particular world. -- 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/660d56c9-99c9-4f20-8245-31d1997399aan%40googlegroups.com.
