> On 9 Oct 2019, at 22:55, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 2:41:19 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:54 PM Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > I haven't seen yet where MWI serves any useful purpose. > > If you're only interested in making a better widget then the MWI has no > useful purpose and you should just stick with the Shut Up And Calculate > Interpretation, but if you have any interest at all in understanding reality > at a somewhat deeper level you may not find that interpretation to be > entirely satisfactory. > > John K Clark > > > MWI is not the one and only alternative to SUACI (Shut Up And Calculate > Interpretation). > > Other interpretations (but not MWI, as far as I can see) are used in writing > programs for computational QM.
If they use programs, they need an ontology in which all computations are realised, so the MWI is not an option, and QM-without collapse, that is Many “worlds” confirms that aspect which is unavoidable when we use any theory in which the notion of programs can be defined. Bruno > > @philipthrift > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c082577b-cbb2-4b4b-a557-41ab71e2ac31%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c082577b-cbb2-4b4b-a557-41ab71e2ac31%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/E04CA38A-C9EC-48BE-929C-98E356DA0AE1%40ulb.ac.be.
