On 1 April 2014 04:04, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/31/2014 12:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > OK...you see an elegant explanation sBould the empirically observed >> fact actually not be. >> >> But would even that alone have been remotely near the ballpark of things >> taken seriously, had there not been extreme quantum strangeness >> irreconcilable at that time, with the most core, most >> fundamental accomplishments of science to date? >> > > MWI evacuates all weirdness from QM. It restores fully > - determinacy > - locality > - physical realism > > The price is not that big, as nature is used to multiplied things, like > the water molecules in the ocean, the stars in the sky, the galaxies, etc. > Each time, the humans are shocked by this, and Gordiano Bruno get burned > for saying that stars are other suns, and that they might have planets, > with other living being. > It is humbling, but not coneptually new, especially for a > computationalist, which explains the MW from simple arithmetic, where you > need only to believe in the consequence of addition and multiplication of > integers. > > > > The price is not having a unified 'self' - which many people would > consider a big price since all observation and record keeping which is used > to empirically test theories assumes this unity. If you observe X and you > want to use that as empircal test of a theory it isn't helpful if your > theory of the instruments says they also recorded not-X. >
Are you saying that the fact that we don't see many worlds is evidence against many worlds? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
