Suppose that you won the lottery, you had a one in a hundred million
chance to win, so you got extremely lucky. You party, go to bed and
think about planning your trip around the World next morning.
In the MWI, things will actually not pan out this way. What will happen
is that the next morning you'll wake up as one of your copies who did
not win the lottery.
This is the flip side of the "anything that can happen will happen"
aspect of the MWI. While you have a copy who has won the lottery, in
fact there even exists an extremely freak copy who has won every time,
it's not true that if you find yourself as one of these copies, you can
expect to continue to be one of these copies.
If you think of something else and then return your thoughts about your
bank balance, then that is a new measurement, and in the MWI the outcome
is not fixed, there are only stable correlations. So, if you already
know that you have won the lottery, then you'll find a consistent result
upon a new measurement.
Saibal
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