On Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 6:54:26 AM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM Bruce Kellett <bhkel...@gmail.com> wrote: *> The sequence of N repetitions gives you an estimate of the probability distribution*. *OK, but even if N=1, such as when I flip a coin just once, I can still obtain a probability of it coming up heads that makes sense. And the long-run relative frequency of an event occurring in repeated trials is just one way to define probability, you could also say it's the ratio of all possible favorable outcomes to all possible outcomes, or as a degree of belief based on available evidence that can be updated when new evidence becomes available.* > *there is no interaction between branches and there is no causal link.* *True. And that is exactly why those independent branches of the Universal Wave Function can be thought of as independent worlds. * And why the MWI is unverifiable and tantamount to a fantasy. AG * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ei6 -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f3358386-1def-4a2a-a8a5-cf2bd4110673n%40googlegroups.com.
