RE: Trying to Understand Many-Worlds Interpretation Better
November 29, 2014 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2014 at 9:22 am by Alex K.)
(November 29, 2014 at 8:27 am)Heywood Wrote: If Many worlds is correct, then there is a world where every time you play a slot machine...you hit the jackpot. A world where everytime you play the lotto....you win the jack pot.....every hand of poker you play....you're dealt a royal flush....and so on and so forth.
If many worlds is correct, there is a world in which you do not die. Suppose you are on your death bed. Do you die that instant? In one world you do...in another you live on for another instance. Now lets look at the world where you live on another instance. If many worlds is correct...in one world you will die this instant...in another you will live on for another instance. Now lets look at the world where you live on another instance. If many worlds is correct...in one world you will die this instant...in another you will live on for another instance....and so on...
You're probably right, but since all of these macroscopic outcomes of macroscopic mechanical processes must be effected via quantum fluctuations, the partition of universes (however you measure that) in which this actually happens, will be extremely small, hence giving you accordingly small probability. But you're right that they should happen somewhere as long as physically possible. In particular, from the perspective of each person, one never dies because anthropically one will always find oneself in one of the states where one is still alive. This raises the same philosophical problems as with copying machines or destructive teleporters.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
