On 11/22/2022 3:07 AM, John Clark wrote:
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
I don't see how MWI adds to intuitive understanding of the Born rule.
It's not agreed among MWI advocates how different outcomes occur with
different weights (which is just another "probability" measure) or in
different numbers so there can be branch counting.
, and so you must instead just learn to be satisfied with shut up and
calculate.
I have no problem with calculating probabilities. Apparently though
some people experience existential angst when told the world isn't
deterministic.
Brent
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>
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