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

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:46 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So why did MWI lose the vote in Copenhagen?  Are you suggesting that
> 1927 was just more fearful of the expansiveness implied by MWI?  80
> years is a bit of a setback, don't you think?

### Probably yes, people then were more scared of big number, having
only abaci to work with, and no laptops. Seriously, MWI does seem to
scare many people because of its implications - infinities of
creatures, hell-branches, total godlessness. For some reason the
framers of QM felt they needed to invent "collapse" out of whole
cloth, and only Everett, thirty years later, had the gumption to work
out the details, take QM to its simplest form and do away with
anthropocentrism. Currently polls of theoretical physicists indicate
that a small majority of them tend to see MWI as the correct and
certainly more elegant interpretation. Rejecting Copenhagen took a
long time and is still in progress.

Rafal