On Aug 30, 7:23 pm, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2009, at 07:06, marc.geddes wrote:
>
> > It’s true that there is no wave function collapse in Bohm, so it uses
> > the same math as Everett. But Bohm does not interpret the wave
> > function in ‘many world’ terms, in Bohm the wave function doesn’t
> > represent concrete reality, its just an abstract field – the concrete
> > reality is the particles, which are on a separate level of reality, so
> > there are no ‘zombies’ in the wave function.
>
> In Bohm, the wave is not an abstract field, it plays a concrete role
> in the determination of the position of the particles I can observed.
> It is not a question of interpretation, it follows form the fact that
> the wave guides the particles by simulating completely the parallel
> branches. And in those branches the person acts exactly like believing
> they are made of particles "like us".
> How could we know that we belong to the branch with particles? We need
> already to abandon CTM here.
Yes, in Bohm the wave is 'real' , but to interpret the wave as
actually referring to ordinary concrete things is already to
presuppose 'many worlds' ; reality has two levels, so really there's
two different definitions of 'real' in Bohm. There are no 'people' in
the wave, its a more abstrast entity than ordinary concrete reality.
> > Brent did make the point that it has trouble with field theory, but
> > this problem is a feature of other interpretations also. Brent also
> > criticised the non-locality, but again, this problem is a feature of
> > all other interpretations also.
>
> I disagree. Everett restores locality, as he explains himself. Deutsch
> and Hayden wrote a paper explaining rather well how locality is
> completely restored in the many-worlds view.
> And as I said, comp alone entails the many "worlds" (or many
> dreams, ...). That part of the SWE confirms comp. If I remember well,
> Bohm intuited this and made some case against the computationalist
> hypothesis.
>
> Bruno
If MWI does eliminate non-locality, that would be a strong point in
its favor, but is there any conclusive paper demonstrating that its
done this? I have not heard of one - I assume the Deutsch/Hayden
paper is just their attempt to restore locality which does not
succeed.
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