Hi Serafino,
I am not familiar with Rubin's papers but I know Clifton's
and I think you are indeed right. Bell wrote the most enlightening
observations about Everettiana and I think he correctly pin down
that it is akin to a (contextual) hidden-variable interpretation when
you try and extract any definite information from it. This is also
clear from his famous Como Lectures "MWI for Cosmologists".
The myth of a Universal Distribution is just one square away from
the myth of a Universal Wave Function seems to me. There is
clearly a hint of something like that is all retractions from classical
determinism (Bohm's Implicate Order is another one but less
hooked on Universal notions).
I will check out the paper by Zeh.
Godfrey Kurtz
(New Brunswick, NJ)
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Sent: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:17:06 +0200
Subject: Re: subjective reality
Godfrey:
> I am not sure I can give you a decent answer to your
> query [...]
There are papers by Mark Rubin showing (perhaps)
that in the Schroedinger picture, information
on splitting worlds must be inferred from
*the history* of the combined system. While
in the Heisenberg picture this information
is contained in mathematical quantities
associated with a single time.
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310186
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209055
Rob Clifton in a paper on 'Phil. of Science'
(circa 1996) appeals to the magic properties
of the Schroedinger Unitary-evolving
*Universal* Wave-function. (This approach
seems to be similar to the concept of a global
wave-function in Bohmian mechanics. John
Bell pointed out a similarity between
Bohmian mechanics and MWI, btw.)
There are, imo, interesting ideas in the paper
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0507051
by D. Zeh. Mainly about the 'dynamics'
of entropy within a 'world' vs. the rest
of the 'worlds'.
Needlless to say, all that seems to have
something to do with what Hal Finney wrote
here recently, in search of a *consistent*
universal distribution.
Regards,
s.
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