Manfred comments on Scott Aaronson's cautious optimism for the MWI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 23 August 2012 08:02:43AM *  0 points [-]

I'm not clear on what you mean by "self-parts" here, but I'm assuming you mean something like basis states that contain people like you, which you can describe people in terms of. In which case I've already trodden this ground - no such objective account must necessarily exist, but such things can be useful, though you still wouldn't be able to get any two different peoples' idealized algorithms to agree on the edge cases.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 23 August 2012 08:09:17AM 1 point [-]

I don't mean something that contains you, I mean something that you contain.

Comment author: Manfred 23 August 2012 09:35:22AM *  0 points [-]

Ooh, a non-helpful one-sentence-off!

The wavefunction is not necessarily separable.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 23 August 2012 10:28:45AM 1 point [-]

Something had better be separable, because all is not one.