--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Indeed there seems to be a conflict between MWI of QM and the feeling of consciousness. QM evolves unitarily to preserve total probability, which implies that the splitting into different quasi-classical subspaces reduces the measure of each subspace. But there's no perceptible diminishment of consciousness. I think this is consistent with the idea that consciousness is a computation, since in that case the computation either exists or it doesn't.
> Two copies don't increase the measure of a computation and reducing it's vector in Hilbert space doesn't diminish it.
If that is so then how do you explain the Born rule?
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