RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2022 at 1:14 pm by FlatAssembler.)
(July 28, 2022 at 10:15 am)HappySkeptic Wrote:(July 28, 2022 at 12:54 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I want my father dead. So, what is wrong with me making him dead for me? I am not making him dead for himself.
That's not the way it works.
In Many Worlds, this version of him is dead, and the other versions don't exist in this universe. Plus, you are killing all versions of him that would branch off from this universe.
The echos of other potential versions of reality fade quickly from our universe (not quickly in time, but quickly after many quantum events create enough entropy that the probability of the other realities go to zero). The question is, do potential realities that no longer have ties to this universe actually exist "somewhere else"?
I'm not so sure. When Lee Smolin was asked about Many Worlds about 10 years ago, he said as an alternative "many realities, one universe", as in, the potential realities exist at the same time, here. When echos of them fade, they are essentially gone. This is the Relational Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Many Worlds has one problem - how do "you" find yourself in one branch as opposed to another? That is unexplained. Many Worlds came about as a solution to the wavefunction collapse problem, but it only substitutes an analogous problem.
It is not as if your consciousness bounces to a different universe where you are alive, when you die here. If so, we all must be immortal, as there is a non-zero probability that in one quantum path, infinite life extension is invented.
So, what do you think, is suicide possible? Or do people who try an effective way of doing suicide (jumping off of a building, shooting themselves in the head...) simply wake up in some parallel universe, but with a high probability of being paralyzed?
