On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:29:57PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > It does not prevent a probabilistic interpretation, but it does not give one > either. You have assumed statistical physics, which introduces a large dose of > probability theory. That does not come from the deterministic theory -- you > have to introduce it from elsewhere. > > So with quantum mechanics. The wave function, being deterministic, does not > have a probabilistic interpretation until you introduce one from elsewhere.
I'm well aware of that. I guess you're disputing the "MWI is nothing but the Schroedinger equation" statement that John Clark sometimes makes. As soon as you have self-location indeterminancy (or first person indeterminancy, I think we called it here), probabilities march right on in. And as soon as you have computationalism (and I would argue functionalism), self-location indeterminancy marches right on in. That was the point of Bruno Marchal's Universal Dovetailer Argument. So the question is how would you do the MWI _without_ probabilities. David Deutsch is working on a possible solution to that, although I'm a little sceptical he can make it work. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/Z8-p7wqiZvvDVhnb%40zen.
