<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Claude: </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Many-worlds</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> eliminates special observers entirely—there's only ever Schrödinger evolution, and "observers" are just quantum systems that get entangled. Your experience of a definite outcome is explained by decoherence plus some measure over branches. </span></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">Yes.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><b style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Claude: </font></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><font face="arial, sans-serif">But this still requires defining what counts as "you" across branches.</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's easy, "I" is anything that remembers being John Clark yesterday. I note that Claude didn't mention the most popular quantum interpretation of all, the Shut Up And Calculate Interpretation, but he she or it does mention the QBism interpretation, and that's almost the same thing.</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h2><br></h2></div></div></div>
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