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, 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. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ses -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0cHxDyHcM3V-eB7a5U3dQmGmhDT6F-%3DJu4BeqH9t0DVQ%40mail.gmail.com.
