Not only consciousness is necessary for measurement, but consciousness is all there is. Oh, my God!, when will these monkeys learn ?
On Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 04:24:29 UTC+3 Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 5/9/2025 3:06 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> Are there multiple worlds with zero probabilities?* > > > *I can't answer that question until you answer a question of my own. Zero > probability of what? And if your answer is "of being observed" then my next > question is "being observed by who?"* > > No, if you measure a variable A in a world it was just measure to have the > eigenvalue Ao, then MWI says you are in a world with A=Ao with probability > 1.0 Yet you wrote that "Many Worlds says it was in every state that is > not forbidden by Schrodinger's Equation." The system is not forbidden by > Schrodinger's equation to be in other states Ai; it is a contingent fact > that it happened, in this world, to land in state Ao the first time it was > measured. So it has probability zero of being a world where A=Ai. This > has nothing to do with being observed or by whom unless you think > consciousness is necessary for measurement. > > Brent > > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > \0o > > > > > > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3A%2Br1Tx%2BakQObExOEjt%3DaM3kSJ0N2V%2BSzBV-Qw9vW2OQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3A%2Br1Tx%2BakQObExOEjt%3DaM3kSJ0N2V%2BSzBV-Qw9vW2OQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4622e048-f9e3-4930-9807-f417a86fe526n%40googlegroups.com.
