Ben_Jones comments on Collapse Postulates - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 May 2008 07:49AM

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 09 May 2008 10:13:48AM 5 points [-]

I suppose that suggesting 'other' amplitudes must collapse or cancel just because we don't remember them is like suggesting the spaceship disappears once it leaves our light cone because we've lost contact with it. You're adding an extra element of complexity for no apparent reason. Never thought of it that way really. Unless I've missed the point entirely....

Main thing I've learnt from this series: the human brain must be really badly suited to understanding how nature works on the lowest levels. How else to explain our most basic laws being split into 'interpretations'?

Question - is there absolutely no communication between one world and another? Does this rule out any testable predictions?