On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> We know from experiment the Born Rule works, everybody agrees about >> that, but Copenhagen, Pilot Wave and Objective Collapse don't even try to >> explain WHY it works, they just take it as a starting assumption; but Many >> Worlds doesn't , it can explain WHY the Born Rule works. Also Many Worlds >> can explain why we need to use probability even though the Multiverse is >> deterministic (because Schrodinger's equation is deterministic); it's >> because of self‐locating uncertainty,* > > *> That's no better than just saying results are probabilistic because the > Schroedinger equation predicts different results with different amplitudes > and only one of them happens. * > *It's much better! You can't explain why only one thing happens and I don't need to explain it because I say everything that is not forbidden does happen and, because it is not forbidden, Brent Meeker sees a living care and another observer who has just as much right to call himself "Brent Meeker" sees a dead cat. * *>> until you open the box you lack the information needed to know if >> you're in the world where the cat is alive or the world with the cat is >> dead.* > > > *> That's a bad example. It goes back to the idea that consciousness > collapses the wave-function.* > *Nonsense! If Many Worlds is correct then the self location problem simply cannot be avoided. I think the idea of consciousness collapsing the wave function is ridiculous but that doesn't mean a good quantum interpretation doesn't need to explain why an observer sees the world the way he does, and Many Worlds can do that. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2xe -- 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/CAJPayv11d0%3DLLvxx4cN-WWJfSLSq1CUfwRRgPKnEtHF9hnkLNg%40mail.gmail.com.
