On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:57 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/4/2021 4:30 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 4:38:42 AM UTC+2 Brent wrote: > >> Advocates of MWI want to claim there are no projections (they aren't >> unitary) that instead the the world "splits" and each approximately >> diagonal value is realized in a subspace. But then one needs to explain >> what about those subspaces corresponds to the probabilities, or in other >> words what does "probability" mean when they all exist? >> > Well, probability has always been about random selection of something from > a collection of somethings. A classical example is random selection of a > ball from a collection of balls. In MWI there is random selection of a > world in which you find yourself. All the worlds exist just as all the > balls in the collection exist. > > > So you are this single magic soul that selects one world of many to really > be in? That seems contrary to the idea that your consciousness gets > entangled with every different result and so is equally in each world. > Brent, I see that you are not entirely opposed to the view that self-locating uncertainty as an explanation of probabilities in MWI is essentially dualistic in that it requires some identification of a unique "self" to be in only one of the 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/CAFxXSLQ0y9Z8stnLQ_cygkqaFkc5H87BTeUg_XLW6SGE620iPw%40mail.gmail.com.
