Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Chpt 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 11 January 2010 12:54:30AM *  3 points [-]

I'd be surprised if you can formulate many-worlds in a way so that there are as many worlds in the past as in the future.

The number of worlds isn't necessarily conserved. But the things called "worlds" in MW aren't made out of distinct pieces of material stuff. (ETA: That is, you don't have one collection of atoms constituting one world while a disjoint collection of atoms constitutes another world.)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 11 January 2010 04:24:43AM 3 points [-]

I don't think I'm going to understand many-worlds today.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 11 January 2010 08:17:49PM 1 point [-]

Good and Real explains it pretty well. (Just resumed reading it today, and realized I liked the chapters on physics more than I thought I would.)

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