[extropy-chat] Is Many Worlds testable?

[John K Clark]

"Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>

> could a physicist do the observing directly, and then be dosed with
> Rohypnol or some other drug interrupting short term memory, preventing the
> memory of observation from going into long term storage?

It would still be a very difficult experiment, but it might decide the
consciousness collapses the wave function matter; but unfortunately not
their fall back position that observation collapses the wave function,
because for some people any physical change is an observation. And for other
people, well.., I really don't know what the hell they mean by observation.
Deutsch's experiment covers all the bases. I think. I can't imagine what
their fall back position from their fall back position would be, but maybe
they could think of something.

   John K Clark