On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> This is to assume that in Everett's picture, each trial is effectively > a Bernoulli trial, with a probability of success p. This is not the case. > Since every outcome occurs on every Evettian trial, the process cannot be > seen as a Bernoulli trial.* > *You're making an implicit assumption that is usually harmless but not when you're talking about the nature of quantum reality. You are forgetting that a Bernoulli trial is not a Bernoulli trial unless the Bernoulli trial has been OBSERVED. And every observer observes that only two outcomes are possible, the coin lands heads or the coin lands tails. And after many trials all the observers in the Multiverse deduce that the outcome of one trial does not influence the outcome of another trial. And all the observers in the Multiverse also deduce that the probability of heads and the probability of tails remains the same for every trial. And that is exactly what is required for something to be a Bernoulli trial.* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* e44 -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv24y9ao0Msdqq49%3D5qbax%2BjLAuiND%2Bt4KuQhfw1HgyP3Q%40mail.gmail.com.
