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> The only way I can see to escape this madness with MWI seems to be give up on the notion of truly separate branches, and instead treat these “many worlds” as
by madhadron 7y ago
> The only way I can see to escape this madness with MWI seems to be give up on the notion of truly separate branches, and instead treat these “many worlds” as a stream of overlapping world-ish-nesses in which discrete outcomes don’t actually even exist
That's what it is. A measurement is coupling a quantum event to a statistically irreversible process. The total wave function that results has two major lobes. There's no split on measurement. That's why it's appealing: it makes no reference to classical mechanics in the formulation.