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> you can work out what MWI predicts a complex agent will report as its experience There's kind of an ontological trick at this point. Using decoherence, self-
by n4r9 4y ago
> you can work out what MWI predicts a complex agent will report as its experience
There's kind of an ontological trick at this point. Using decoherence, self-locating uncertainty, and one or more assumptions about rational decision-making, you can derive what rational credence you might apportion to each of the agent's possible experiences. I feel like this is different from actually predicting the agent's experience.
- kgwgk 4y agoWhat’s an agent? What’s an experience? Those questions do not seem easier to answer than “what’s a measurement”.
- n4r9 4y agoFair point. All you can really do, without making some quite strong ontological assumptions, is derive which rational credences to assign to the outcomes of one's own future interactions with the world. Which suddenly sounds a lot like QBism.