Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of...
by ttctciyf on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:28PM
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> For a start, there is no evidence that the ones you are calling "not quite so actual" are any less actual than the one we share an experience of.
Well, there is evidence of the one I'm calling "actual" - if it's evidence you want, there's no evidence at all of the "not so actual" ones - citing the MW interpretation as evidence of these is purely circular.
Regards not explaining perceived consciousness.. If MW is shunting off questions of actuality into something to be resolved by a theory of consciousness isn't it leaving behind centuries of consensus belief in the objective observer-independent existence of a physical world ontologically prior to consciousness?
No.
For a start, there is no evidence that the ones you are calling "not quite so actual" are any less actual than the one we share an experience of.
Continuing on, the interpretation does not attempt to explain the phenomena of perceived consciousness. That is as much out of its remit as abiogenesis is out of the remit of Darwin's theory of evolution. Those problems are different in kind, much harder, and have to be addressed by very different theories.
Everett addressed a precise problem. That problem is explaining why, to the extent that QM describes an observer, the act of observation must turn that observer into a superposition of observers. Each of which has observed an apparent collapse, and none of which can interact further in any meaningful way.