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What does "a large number of worlds in this universe" even mean? Yes. The words "world" and "universe" (and "reality", and "existence" and "cosmos") are synonymous and interchangeable. What does "a large number of worlds in this world...

Trump is the bonafide hero of his voters. He is seen by his supporters as one who can defy the consequences of his bold actions, somewhat like a benevolent, altruistic hero could hopefully do. He is a hero to MAGA because he has the audacity to thumb his nose at his detractors. Reminds me of Homela...

The lesson to learn from this thread is, there are interpretations within interpretations of every interpretation of quantum mechanics. VA likes to interpret the Copenhagen interpretation as saying consciousness causes collapse - but not all copenhagenists do that (and most in fact don't). Seeds lik...

I'm apparently the only one paying attention. They're not "staying in synchronization" with each other - they're just the same thing. They aren't 2 things in sync, they're one thing. Nothing Sean Caroll said implied otherwise. Even if they were somehow "separate", it's not a giv...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 4:07 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 2:44 pm many worlds is about this universe.

What?

many
/ˈmɛni/
determiner · adjective
a large number of.

A large number of this universe?

What does that even mean?

What does "a large number of worlds in this universe" even mean?

His wording implies they're separate even when they're identical. That's another one of them... contradiction things. Identity implies inability to distinguish. Separate implies a distinction accomplished. Example: 1 = 1 The "1" on the left is the same, but it is not identical to the &quo...

No, if they were in perfect synchronization, then they were NOT separate. And I would agree with that. But he wouldn't. His wording doesn't imply that. Which is why I said "I don't think any of that matches what mwi peeps believe." His wording implies they're separate even when they're id...

No, if they were in perfect synchronization, then they were NOT separate. And I would agree with that. But he wouldn't. His wording doesn't imply that. Which is why I said "I don't think any of that matches what mwi peeps believe." His wording implies they're separate even when they're id...

I think Carroll said it too in some vid. The branches are completely separate after the branching, they don't ever interact. The quote I quoted doesn't say completely separate after the branching, it's talking about them as if they're completely separate the whole time, even when they're exactly th...

I think Carroll said it too in some vid. The branches are completely separate after the branching, they don't ever interact. The quote I quoted doesn't say completely separate after the branching, it's talking about them as if they're completely separate the whole time, even when they're exactly th...

I think I'll have to disagree here. Standard MWI says that the worlds of the Many worlds are both connected and separate at the same time, it's a self-contradiction. They have to be connected in order to be counted as different branches of the same universal wavefunction. And after branching, they ...

You're pointing out one of the (several) logical inconsistencies within standard MWI. That's fine, but not really what I was talking about. I simply said that new universes don't keep hopping into existence, and Carroll said this too. What he said isn't an inconsistency in mwi anyway, it's yet anot...

You're a monkey. Do you laugh?

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-consciousness-collapse-the-wave-function Why does consciousness collapse the wave function? Tom McFarlane B.S. in Physics, Stanford University (Graduated 1988) let’s be perfectly clear: collapse of the wave function is not part of quantum mechanics per se, but part of ...

If human consciousness is removed from QM absolutely, this is leading to Berkeley's sort of subjective idealism, i.e. if not humans, so absolutely independent, then it can only be an independent God, how else?? Study the science and figure it out. You're so focused on the "philosophy of scienc...