As I have pointed out previously, the problem with probability as an ultimate description of the universe, is that it means the universe is *unintelligible*. I mean, it implies there is no *process* to understand why, when we measurement something, we get what we get. So I am in good company; God doesn't play dice with the universe. AG
On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 2:28:29 PM UTC-7 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On 11/22/2022 3:07 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 6:31 PM Brent Meeker <meeke...@gmail.com> 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> > > 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 everything-li...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0Xev57XFzof7pC2rRVCVFXbddH%2BzS8%3DoK%3DQ2GYxZWnQA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0Xev57XFzof7pC2rRVCVFXbddH%2BzS8%3DoK%3DQ2GYxZWnQA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c153e6ec-b1a6-479d-994b-df37a1c04fe1n%40googlegroups.com.
