Hi Ken
This is also something Han Moravec identified. It's true that Everett does
not say this explicitly, but it is implicit in his paper, at least the way I
read it. But I'm really just following Deutsch, and a few discussions with
Rainer Plaga.
Essentially, MWI is no better than Copenhagen if this is not true as there
is a mystery consciousness link initiating a split.
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Fisher [SMTP:kenf.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 2:17 PM
> To: Higgo James
> Cc: 'everything-list.domain.name.hidden'
> Subject: Re: middle way
>
> Hi James
>
> > What's up with the list? I seem not to heve received anything since
> > 20th November. Did I unsubscribe by mistake? And where's the archive?
>
> I've received 10 messages since then and I'm still able to access
> the archive at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/
>
> > Comments, please, on the following piece for inclusion in the Journal of
> the
> > Buddhist society. Notification of any actual inaccuracies will be
> especially
> > welcome.
>
> I think it's good and I didn't find any inaccuracies, but I do have a
> question. You say:
>
> "According to Everett's MWI, the universe is branching off every
> Planck Time [1e-43 second] into countless billions of other
> universes, each an unmoving snapshot in time, and each branching out
> in turn."
>
> You've suggested in several of your posts to this list and the avoidl
> list that the universe branches *"every Planck time"*, but I've never
> found another source that seems so sure about it. I'd be interested
> if you have any references.
>
> It's certainly not the view, for example, of the mwi faq at
> http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm#do which says:
> "Worlds irrevocably "split" at the sites of measurement-like
> interactions associated with thermodynamically irreversible
> processes..."
>
> I'd very much appreciate comments about this either from you or
> from anyone else on the list.
>
> Ken Fisher
Received on Tue Nov 23 1999 - 06:48:53 PST