[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)

[Lee Corbin]

Stathis writes

>> Why do you say that there is no splitting?  Say a GIU (Group of
>> Identical Universes, a term Deutsch uses over and over in the book
>> "Fabric of Reality") bifurcates into the "heads" and "tails" branches
>> you spoke of above.  Why don't you consider this splitting, or have
>> I misunderstood?
> 
> "Splitting" and even "branching" could imply that some special
> physical process, over and above simply having two different
> outcomes to a quantum event, occurs to physically separate the
> worlds. Let's be clear that these commonly used terms are metaphors.

Quite right.  I still think that I have a consistent view of all this, but
no matter how consistent, one can always strive to be clearer in
thinking about it and expressing it. Indeed, those terms ought to
be considered to be metaphors just as you say.

Lee