On 11/12/2024 2:05 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 4:27 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
/> there are a bazillion measurements per second, if not
more,**and each one causes the world to split./
*Exactly! So I forget, what are we arguing about?*
/> How the Born rule gets realized. You say it has something to
do with measurement, but that is "simply change"./
*NO, that is exactly what I did _NOT_ say, or if I did it was the
written equivalent of a fart! I said the way the Born rule gets
realized has something to do with _change_, not necessarily a
measurement. All measurements involve a change, *
*"**Many Worlds, in it a measurement is simply a change." JKC*
*but not all changes are a measurement; this is because "measurement"
implies that a consciousness, or at least an intelligence, is
involved; but "change" implies no such thing. *
/>Many worlds makes no prediction about anything testable. /
*Does your preferred quantum interpretation, whatever it is, do any
better in that regard? If several quantum interpretations produce
identical observable results then Occam's Razor says that the
preferred one would be the one that makes the fewest assumptions. And
that would be Many Worlds. I remind you that all those many many
worlds are _NOT_ an assumption, instead they are a _CONSEQUENCE_ of
simply assuming that Schrodinger's equation means what it says, and
the equation says _NOTHING_ about a wave function collapsing. *
What you are "reminding" me of is just your interpretation of
Schroedinger's equation. I think it just says some possibility
realizations are more probable than others. It doesn't say anything
about world's splitting either. I'd say postulating the existence of
un-realized world's if a pretty severe violation of Occam's Razaor.
Brent
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