NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 August 2010 10:51:24AM 0 points [-]

David Lewis had a crazy but interesting suggestion. According to Lewis, there are an infinite number of universes ("possible worlds") out there, one for each possible way the world could be. These universes are disconnected from each other in space and time, and set up so that nothing in one universe can cause events in another universe.

Lewis may actually have heard of the physics, but Sinhababu seems to think of many worlds as a purely philosophical construct.