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This person is making a mistake with Everettian mechanics, assuming there is branching, which is precisely not what is happening.
by VirusNewbie 2y ago
This person is making a mistake with Everettian mechanics, assuming there is branching, which is precisely not what is happening.
- nh23423fefe 2y agoEverett used the same terminology
- VirusNewbie 2y agono, he talks about the perception of branching. The universe isn't branching, a coherent thread we observe is. It's the difference between tracing a path on a graph, and seeing a graph change.
- OutOfHere 2y agoIf branching is real, then the perception we have is of "not branching".
- hollerith 2y agoBut I don't percieve any branching. Do you?
- VirusNewbie 2y agoof course. I see the cat end up dead or alive, not in the superposition of both. Hence, I perceive a branch.
- Nevermark 2y agoHmm. A branch can mean one of the branches, or it can mean the bifurcation that created branches. Not really responding directly to your comment. But I see the opportunity for a lot of disagreement based on slightly different term use.
- hollerith 2y agoI meant that to all appearances, I seem to live in a reality that does not ever split, and it is only a complex deductive argument made by Everett and his followers that makes me to suspect that reality does in fact split. Anyway, I doubt that further dialog between you and I will lead anywhere fruitful.