RE: The weirdness of the Many Worlds Interpretation

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 15:03:23 MDT

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    Robin writes (and Lee also noticed):
    > You say it works in this example, but I don't see it. Can you show us
    > explicitly how you can calculate your 10%/90% figure in this example.

    Sorry, I was confused and was thinking circularly.

    There is a related argument that says that if there are actually an
    infinite number of splits, you can no longer count the worlds, for they
    are uncountable, and you must introduce a measure. In that case the
    Born measure is arguably at least as natural as the generalization of
    the world-counting one. However most people today don't expect infinite
    dimensions to stay around once QM is fixed up to include gravity.

    Hal

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