On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 6:31 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> some call Many Worlds bare bones, no nonsense quantum mechanics, it >> has no silly bells and whistles cluttering things up. And that's the sort >> of thing William of Ockham would approve of. > > > * > It has an infinite number of other worlds, most differing from this > world only in unobservable ways.* > Yes. > > > * In comparison, taking the Born rule to mean what it says seems like > modest addition to the theory.* > >From experimentation we know for a fact the Born Rule means what it says and is correct, but if you are not satisfied with the "shut up and calculate" philosophy and if there were NOT "*an infinite number of other worlds most differing from this world only in unobservable ways*" then you're out of luck; if that's true I don't think there would be any hope of achieving an intuitive understanding of why the Born Rule is correct, and so you must instead just learn to be satisfied with shut up and calculate. After all, many philosophers, including some really great ones like Dirac, are just not interested in philosophy. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 6te -- 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/CAJPayv0Xev57XFzof7pC2rRVCVFXbddH%2BzS8%3DoK%3DQ2GYxZWnQA%40mail.gmail.com.
