Bob5 comments on Collapse Postulates - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bob5 09 May 2008 02:29:36PM -2 points [-]

It seems that many physicists are strongly biased to deterministic theories, and that this is a prime selling point for MWI. So we have a configuration space that comprises every possible state of the universe. And we have a wavefunction over that space which evolves deterministically. So game over: there is no novelty in the universe. There is no meaningful distinction between past, present or future; they are just points on the trajectory through the configuration space, any one of which is completely determined by any other along with the universal wave equation. How boring. I think this is more of a bug than a feature.

I've already said a little about what kind of interpretation I prefer. It's along the lines of Lande's theory. Realistic interpretation of the wavefunction; reality as a single point in configuration space, and random time evolution under the influence of the wave equation.