I tend to agree with Deutsch's intuitions on this but I think it gets into philosophical questions like whether the pilot wave being in some computational sense equivalent to MWI means that observers in other branches are "real", have their own distinct conscious experiences etc. It seems like it's at least a coherent philosophical interpretation of QM to postulate that only brain states corresponding to actual particle positions/movements in Bohmian mechanics give rise to conscious experiences, even though this seems very contrived and implausible to me.
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 1:06 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:38 PM Jesse Mazer <laserma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *> Whether violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities rule out nonlocal >> realistic theories seems to be a matter of definition, the inequality is >> violated in Bohmian mechanics which is often referred to as a nonlocal >> realistic theory,* >> > > David Deutsch, one of the leading advocates of Many Worlds, said "*the > de Broglie–Bohm theory, is a parallel universe theory in denial*", he > thinks it's basically saying the same thing but just uses more euphemisms > so as to be less upsetting to people. He says the pilot wave theory "*boils > down to a probability field that acts like particles in other universes > interfering with particles in our universe*". > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > dxd > > > > > -- > 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/CAJPayv0zzV0ua9uKe_H%2B3UNUDALMPwgEuKYWQZrhrV%2BN_y8TdA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0zzV0ua9uKe_H%2B3UNUDALMPwgEuKYWQZrhrV%2BN_y8TdA%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/CAPCWU3KHg%2B2T8EBmDsjdTm2v-Bjk0dGZv5d2kYgzR1UJw0%3Dfbw%40mail.gmail.com.
