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

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sun Jan 13 18:26:57 UTC 2008


At 12:58 PM 1/13/2008 -0500, JKC wrote:

> > If it weren't for the "weird correlation", then there would actually be
> > four universes
>
>What's the big deal, if you want 4 I'll give you 4, universes are cheap.

You can't, you only get two; that's the problem.

> > and each such worthy would weep "alas there is no correlation
> > between what >happens here and what happens there, our
> > entanglementation did fail".  But when entanglement succeeds,
> > there are just the two universes
>
>I don't understand what you are saying, entanglement always succeeds.

That's the problem. In a MWI, it should only "work" (by chance 
coincidence) some of the time. If I've understood the proposition correctly.

Damien Broderick





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