On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The branching makes the outcome fundamentally unpredictable, which is what > randomness is. It results from the branching and nothing else. It is not > specific to QM or MWI: it results from any process where the observer > branches. > One of the troubles with this is that it takes no account of probability -- the fact that some outcomes might be more or less likely than others. The outcome on any one trial may be unpredictable for the branching individual, but unpredictability is not random selection from a distribution. If you do not take probabilities into account you cannot understand the correlations that exist between outcomes on repeated trials. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLTfPTa1iEVE_eT_Rp-OKbd9W7sErRwh64BdP%2BMojWnE8Q%40mail.gmail.com.
