On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
* > A lot of leaning on metaphor there. * > *Yes but you almost make that sound like that's a bad thing. Humans think in terms of metaphor and analogy and in the final analysis a vast amount of new knowledge comes down to discovering for the first time that X is like Y.* > * > By what measure is going thru the left slit only a "small" difference > from going thru the right slit?* > *I would've thought the answer to that question was obvious. If a skilled experimenter can arrange things so that the only difference between 2 universes is that one has a record of a particular electron going through the left slit of a particular 2 slit experiment but the other universe does not, and there is a way to erase that record, then there is a way to make those 2 universes identical again, and then it would be silly to say there are still 2 universes and I'd be justified in saying they had coalesced. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* w/a -- 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/CAJPayv3RTCNoufJixxRCpXH1NCEswQ1qRrJnDkjL3oJXnJ7kVw%40mail.gmail.com.
