On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:32:14PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> Bruno Marchal wrote:
> > ...
> > Zombie are important in philosophy, a bit like zero is important in
> > Number Theory, or like the empty set is important in Set Theory, I
> > think. For example, it is easy to show that if Bohm QM is correct,
> > then the Everett Universal waves if full of zombies, even zombie
> > lacking a material (here: = made of particles) body, yet discussing
> > and sending mails like you and me.
>
> Could you explicate that? Bohmian QM and Everett's relative states are
> contrary interpretations of QM, so I don't see how to usefully make
> interferences from their conjunction.
>
> Brent Meeker
>
I understand that Bruno is appealing to the notion that Bohmian
mechanics can be considered as a version of the many worlds, where a
single world is given ontological preeminence by the pilot wave, and
all the other branches are not really there.
The "not really there" branches are the ones with the zombies in them
- but that would imply the zombies are not really there too.
Cheers
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Received on Mon May 19 2008 - 19:40:47 PDT