On 3/31/2014 5:53 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 1 April 2014 04:04, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto: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?
No, the fact that whatever our instrument reads our *theory* says there are infinitely
many other readings.
Brent
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