[ExI] Many Minds as an alternative to Many Worlds Quantum Reality

[John Clark]

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 7:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


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> *> Many minds, not many worlds, constitute quantum reality The view from
> nowhere is leading quantum physics astray 5th May 2026 Nadia Blackshaw **>https://iai.tv/articles/many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality-auid-3565?_auid=2020
> <https://iai.tv/articles/many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality-auid-3565?_auid=2020>>*


> *> Blackshaw argues that the prevailing Many Worlds Interpretation is
> fundamentally flawed by its attempt to adopt what Thomas Nagel famously
> termed the "view from nowhere"*


*If she doesn't like that view then she needs to blame Schrodinger and his
equation, perhaps the most useful and productive equation in all of
physics. *

*> she characterizes the theory as "wildly extravagant," as it requires the
> constant generation of uncountable parallel worlds *


*Occam's razor is about an economy of assumptions NOT an economy of
results. If you believe that Schrodinger's equation means what it says, and
it has never yet failed an experimental test, then all those other worlds
turn up regardless of if you like them or not.  If you want to get rid of
those other worlds you need to make things more complicated, you need to
make additional assumptions and invent all sorts of additional bells and
whistles. Many Worlds is bare-bones no-nonsense quantum mechanics, nobody
has yet found a way to make something simpler.  *

*>  She proposes instead a “many minds” interpretation, in which the cat is
> alive from one perspective and dead from another. *


*A perspective requires a mind, and mind is what a brain does, so you can't
have many perspectives without many brains, so **I'll be damned if I can
see a difference between many minds and many worlds.  *

*John K Clark*

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