Trying to Understand Many-Worlds Interpretation Better

[Alex K]

Rhythm, Heywood

Your explanation makes it sound as if there already are all these preexisting copies of myself in parallel, who then experience different things. Looking at the Schroedinger equation, it really appears to be more like a forking, which prompts me to write what I write concerning the fate of individuals.

Edit: sorry, didnt see your follow up posts. Still, I don't get your problem with this view: sure, there are many copies from earlier splits, and they drift away and stop interfering with each other quite literally. Still, if I identify myself now at this point in time, I would know that later, there are copies of my state at that point with different time evolution. No?

He may, but that wasn't one of them. In MWI there is no continuity of self (or anything, the entire bit is predicate on the exact opposite). To say that in one world "you" die and in another "you" live is a gross miscommunication. Someone dies, someone lives...but it isn't "you" in any world other than this one. MWI, again, isn't my thing....but it deserves to be laid out in specifics if it's going to be discussed.

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