no, no! it was an entirely different person here almost 2 wks ago who was arguing with me about whether quantum mechanics can be understood without the math, al

no, no! it was an entirely different person here almost 2 wks ago who was arguing with me about whether quantum mechanics can be understood without the math, all while making claims that showed how little he knew of the topic. he might have been trolling anyway. In my reply to you I was merely agreeing, herr denton-scratch. many worlds doesnt (afaict) posit why/how branch selection even occurs so it's sort of incomplete IMO. wavefunction collapse doesn't seem to exist either, but rather is a result of entanglement with the observer. my personal guess is something like superdeterminism in principle but I keep an open mind. I suspect that there are some basic consequences/meanings of the existence of state/information and entanglement themselves which have been too subtle to have been seen as assumptions in the past, and I am slowly working on formalizing them.