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Comment author: pragmatist 08 July 2012 08:29:18PM *  2 points [-]

But it seems to me that whether or not I murder someone, the total number of murder-paths and the total number of non-murder-paths is the same? Is this totally off base? I hope that it is.

Good news! It is totally off base. There is nothing in quantum mechanics requiring that the number of branches corresponding to an arbitrary macroscopic event and its negation must be equal.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 July 2012 08:32:35PM 1 point [-]

There is nothing in quantum mechanics requiring that the number of branches corresponding to an arbitrary macroscopic event and its negation must be equal.

Aww, you had my hopes up. There's nothing in my set-up that requires them to be equal either, just that the numbers be fixed.

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