PhilGoetz comments on The Apparent Reality of Physics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 24 September 2011 02:24:37PM 0 points [-]

I would need to know more about physics to even understand how this differs from many-worlds.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 24 September 2011 03:09:15PM 3 points [-]

Tegmark IV and many worlds have little to nothing to do with each other.

The Everett branches of the "many worlds" all follow the same physical laws -- the same equations.
Tegmark IV demands that every possible alternate set of equations is equally "real" as our own, that a concept existing in abstract mathematical form and a physical structure existing in reality is one and the same thing. Effectively it attempts to explain reality by arguing the word reality has no meaning.