On 11/23/2022 5:23 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 4:28 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
/> 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./
Branch counting won't work if you assume there are an infinite number
of worlds but one and only one Mr.You, but if there is also an
infinite number of Brent Meekers who physically differ from each other
in ways that are so sub microscopically tiny they make no subjective
difference it does work.
Right, provided you specify that the entanglement with result X vs Y be
random, independently distributed over the infinite number. But to me
that seems less intuitive than just the Born Rule. I know Everettians
will say the infinite branches of Brent Meeker are just different
projections of the World Vector and although we can ignore all the
projections except the one we observed, by keeping all the unobserved
ones we've avoided saying the wave function collapsed. We can't say
exactly where and when, but we're sure there was a continuous process of
splitting.
Brent
A string that is 6 inches long and one 7 inches long both have an
infinite number of points, but if I put 80 of the 6 inch strings into
a hat and 20 of the 7 inch ones and are blindfolded close and pick one
out of the hat at random and asked to make a bet on which sort of
string I picked I would place the odds at a 80% chance it would be 6
inches and 20% it would be 7 inches. And if I consistently played that
game and used those odds I would soon make a lot of money.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
muq
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