<br><br>On Wednesday, November 30, 2016, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Nov 30, 2016 6:55 AM, "Jason Resch" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jasonresch@gmail.com');" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Are you familiar with:<br>
> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Compatibilism</a> ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I should have known there'd be a word for it. Thanks! :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">> Someone earlier stated Bell's Inequality implies we have to give up one of: locality, determinism, or realism. This list is incomplete, we must give up one of: locality, determinism, realism, or counterfactual definiteness.<br>
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> Counterfactual definiteness means experiments have only one outcome. MWI gives up counterfactual definiteness and retains locality, determinism and realism.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But experiments do have only one outcome, as experienced and observed by the experimenters. Any alternate worlds are immeasurable and may as well not exist.</p></blockquote><div>That's not quite what's meant by counterfactual definiteness though.</div><div><br></div><div>Realism, in QM also implies something different from whether or not something is observable. According to Bohr, only measurements are real. This view dispenses with a reality external from observers. In MWI, the universal wave function is real independent of observers or observation.</div><div><br></div><div>It is why Einstein asked someone who believed in the Copenhagen Interpretation "Do you really believe the moon only exists when you're looking at it?"</div><div><br></div><div>In MW, the moon definitely does exist, even when no one is looking at it, so it is a theory that maintains/restores realism to QM.</div><div><br></div><div>All of Einstein's criticisms of QM, that it abandoned realism, locality, and determinism, are issues that are resolved by MW. I think Einstein would have enthusiastically embraced it, had he lived to see it.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div> </div>