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Re:The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems by nabla9 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:31AM (#18249141)
Philip Ball explores the problems that many world interpretation poses to the concepts of self and meaningfulness of life in the sense that he understands them.

Nothing in the article clearly points to problems in physics or even philosophy of physics in many world interpretation.

Makes me feel uncomfortable is not very deep argument.

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Re:The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems by pantonia on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:36AM (#18254268)
Agreed - the idea that selfhood and duality are illusions of perception have been around at least as long as Buddhism, and philosophically well articulated. They are hardly grounds for dismissing a theory of the fundamental universe.
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Re:The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems by tzs on Thursday October 18, 2018 @09:13PM (#18253642)
Larry Niven had a nice short story on that, called "All The Myriad Ways". The Wikipedia article on the short story collection of the same name [1] includes a link to the story itself in their collection of old Galaxy issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Myriad_Ways

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