On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:34:30AM -0400, kurtleegod.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> [RS]
> Interestingly, someone pointed me at a paper by Esche the other day,
> arguing that alternative "projection postulates" are compatible with
> the MWI. The precise alternative projection postulate they supplied
> turns out to be riddled with white rabbits - which makes me speculate
> that the Born rule is precisely what you need to kill off all the
> white rabbits in the MWI.
>
> [GK]
> I can't say I follow you here. MWI + Projection postulates should
> reproduce
> regular Copenhagenian QM since MWI is basically QM - Projection
> Postulates!
> Now killing white rabbits with the Born rule!??? If that could be
> done, seems to
> me, would obviate all the need for MWI in the first place, no?
>
Don't worry too much - I'm indulging in a bit of idle speculation for
the benefit of Brent, amongst others. See my post msg07791.html
(available from
http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list.domain.name.hidden/msg07791.html
as the other archive appears to be out of action).
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