[extropy-chat] Many worlds and Hugh Everett

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Tue Dec 30 16:02:01 UTC 2003


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From: "John K Clark" <jonkc at att.net>
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Subject: [extropy-chat] Many worlds and Hugh Everett


> There is a new online biography of Hugh Everett, the man who started the
> many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics at
> http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/everett/ . One thing I didn't know was that
> Everett's daughter believed in it and killed herself because she thought
she
> would be living in a better parallel world with her father. Apparently she
> thought if all the unhappy versions of herself died her consciousness
would
> remain only in the happy ones. There may be a certain amount of logic to
> that but before you do something that drastic you had better be very very
> sure the theory is correct. I don't know about you but I'm not THAT
certain.

As it stands the interpretation can only be verified subjectively, and only
if true.

Dirk

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