On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 10:30 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:50 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:14:41PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: >> >> > *If there are probabilities attached to the branches, then Gleason's >> theorem shows that the probabilities must satisfy the Born rule. * > > > I agree with what you say, so why won't you also say that's a big win for > Everett's Many Worlds? > Everett's theory does not attach a probability to branches -- it just says that they all happen. And that is the biggest failure of Everett's theory > *if they are probabilities of results that implies that some things >> happen and others don't.* > > > If there are probabilities of results that implies that* SOMETIMES* a > specific thing happens and *SOMETIMES* that exact same specific thing > doesn't. > Everett says that everything that can happen always happens, so there can be no applicable notion of probability in that theory. Bruce -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRgbH2ywgzaPOg_0LuWkS1Ss3wKcfFd0i1fUYsB9s9S_w%40mail.gmail.com.
