From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 17:35:25 MST
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:24:37PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> But wait! Here's this great swathe of possible paths, all of them taken,
> each of them the trajectory native to its own idiosyncratic world--but what
> *we* *here* experience is (almost) always that one goddam minimal action
> path. This looks wildly inconsistent with MW to me. (Of course it might be
> that in the MW manifold there is an a priori high p value for the least
> action path, so any observer is almost always in such a world--but that just
> establishes by fiat what is meant to be explained.
My current late evening impression is that the worlds where you see a
non-classical behavior have measure zero - i.e. are never experienced.
Hmm, I *thought* I understood it, but
http://neon.airtime.co.uk/users/station/m-worlds.htm#Q23
suggests I might have been wrong. I need to think about this more.
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