From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 17:06:23 MST
Rafal,
> Does it mean you yield?
Of course not. I was prepared to discuss other interpretations of Lee's
1000 way chamber after he conceded that a MWI interpretation leads to
1000 alternates each in a slightly different state at their moments of
creation (which foils his level 7 argument for MWI dupes, apparently),
but Lee has steadfastly refused to make that concession, preferring
instead to accuse me of not understanding the nature of measurement and
observation under MWI. I feel that either 1) Lee does not understand
MWI, or that 2) I am being stonewalled. For that reason I decided to end
my participation here, at least with Lee until he does some homework and
realizes his error.
Do you, Rafal, understand that under the Many Worlds interpretation of
QM, the observer of an experiment with n possible outcomes splits into n
different alternates at the moment that the measurement changes the
state of the observer(s), such that each alternate observer is created
in a different state?
This is the ramification:
IF...
Lee's theory about level 7 requires that duplicates must be in every
respect identical at their moments of creation,
THEN...
alternates of oneself created under the Many Worlds interpretation of QM
do not qualify as duplicates of oneself in Lee's theory.
-gts
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