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Comment author: quen_tin 23 September 2010 08:36:06PM -1 points [-]

You're right, there is no certainty, but my jumps are not totally ungrounded. We all experience a flow of time in a single world, and the many-worlds interpretion does not really explains it.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 September 2010 08:50:10PM 1 point [-]

You're right, there is no certainty, but my jumps are not totally ungrounded. We all experience a flow of time in a single world, and the many-worlds interpretion does not really explains it.

It really does. At the level of everyday life branching explains our experiences exactly as well as a non-quantum explanation. When we happen to be using scientific apparatus our experience is better explained by MW.

Comment author: quen_tin 23 September 2010 09:54:08PM 0 points [-]

It does not explain why we followed that path in the many world, not another one. Our experience is "better explain" > it is a good heuristic interpretation.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 September 2010 09:57:43PM 1 point [-]

It does not explain why we followed that path in the many world, not another one.

It doesn't explain that because that isn't what happened.

Comment author: quen_tin 24 September 2010 08:44:23AM -1 points [-]

That is my experience. As far as I can know if something happened, that happened.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 September 2010 08:49:15AM 1 point [-]

You confusing experience itself with your intuitions about experience. Your actual experience makes just as much sense if you perceive yourself to be part of a great tree of branches.

Comment author: quen_tin 24 September 2010 09:28:04AM 0 points [-]

Then I followed a path on this tree.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 September 2010 05:39:14PM 0 points [-]

Evidently.

Comment author: quen_tin 24 September 2010 06:46:46PM 0 points [-]

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