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Comment author: Halfwitz 26 July 2013 09:32:05PM *  3 points [-]

I think answers to the meaning of the wave function collapse will come more form decoherence mechanisms giving the appearance of a collapse.

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't that the official many-world's position - that decoherence provides each "you" with the appearance of collapse?

Comment author: shminux 26 July 2013 11:03:11PM 3 points [-]

Decoherence is a measurable physical effect and is interpretation-agnostic. "Each you" only appears in the MWI ontology. pan did not state anything about there being more than one copy of the observer as a result of decoherence.

Comment author: Halfwitz 27 July 2013 04:03:04AM 1 point [-]

That makes sense; are you a physicist, too?

Comment author: shminux 27 July 2013 04:42:09AM 0 points [-]

Trained, not practicing.

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