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

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Damien
> It might be worth considering that "worlds" split *at the instant
> when the unpredictable/uncaused quantum decay occurs* (which triggers
> release of the cyanide), so there are many worlds with a cat that
> died at different clock ticks, but the human "observer" can't
> distinguish them when she opens the box at the agreed mean time of
> electron emission (or whatever) that yields a theoretical p of 0.5.
> Well, maybe there's a detector inside the box that registered instant
> of cyanide release. Each splitting carried a version of the human
> observer with it, surely.

If the split inside the (sealed, shielded) box
causes the entire universe outside the box to split accordingly,
it means that the split propagates through the sealed,
shielded box (and this would be strange).
Maybe this is the reason why the faq says that
the onlooker is split into two copies only when
the box is opened.
s.

"When I hear of Schrödinger's cat,
I reach for my gun."
-S.Hawking