Re: Modal Realism vs. MWI

2002-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Tim May wrote: >While I find Deutsch fairly persuasive, the verdict is of course not >yet in whether MWI is the correct interpretation. The double slit >results had a "traditional" wave mechanics interpretation 75 years >ago ("wave-particle duality"), and this remains a viable >interpreta

Re: Modal Realism vs. MWI

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Tim May wrote: > > > However, I take your point that full Lewis-Stalnaker-D. Lewis modal > realism is "more disjoint" than the "less disjoint" (initial > interference of branching worlds) MWI. In terms of topology, one might > say full modal realism is the discrete (perhaps Zariski) topology,

Modal Realism vs. MWI

2002-10-04 Thread Tim May
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 09:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > At 9:36 -0700 1/10/2002, Tim May wrote: > >> MWI looks, then, like just another variant of "modal realism." To >> wit, there IS a universe in which unicorns exist, and another in >> which Germany won the Second World War, but the