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> Aren't these multiway systems essentially what we see with ambiguous grammars... Yes. > One application of these might be to resolve the meaning of probabil
by taliesinb 5y ago
> Aren't these multiway systems essentially what we see with ambiguous grammars...
Yes.
> One application of these might be to resolve the meaning of probabilities under the many-worlds interpretation...
There's some ways to go before we Hilbert spaces, operator algebras, and the like, but yes, the idea would be that some path counting procedure would be used to derive the Born rule. It would be great to bridge with Carroll's self-locating uncertainty paper [0]
> Under the section titled "Observers, Reference Frames and Emergent Laws" in this article, you can see some branches merging again in that first graph, so perhaps the probabilities of the Born rule are due to parallel computations that merge in this way...
Right!
[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7907 https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7907