Re: "spooky action at a distance"

From: Hal Finney <hal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:55:04 -0800

John Collins, <johnhcollins.domain.name.hidden>, writes:
> Do we live in a universe in which future coin tosses will invariably result
> in "heads," or one in which a mixture of results will occur?
> Of course, we live in both, but the latter constitutes a numerically much
> larger class of universes; one would imagine it would be the same with
> physical laws, including those governing "wave-function collapse": That some
> laws would have a much larger "measure", and would always be the ones we
> discover.

That makes sense. So instead of arguing over whether wave-function
collapse occurs, we should argue over what is the fraction of our
experiences in which it occurs.

Hal
Received on Sat Nov 15 2003 - 13:57:52 PST