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19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 May 2008 08:16AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell2 13 May 2008 08:47:37PM 3 points [-]

I'm not a physicist, I'm a programmer. If I tried to simulate the Many-Worlds Interpretation on a computer, I would rapidly run out of memory keeping track of all of the different possible worlds. How does the universe (or universe of universes) keep track of all of the many worlds without violating a law of conservation of some sort?

Comment author: ike 21 July 2014 03:59:23PM *  0 points [-]

And you can simulate the single worlds interpretation on a computer without running out of resources?

Infinity squared=Infinity, and if the universe is continuous, it can be said (in a mathematical sense), that it takes no more processing power to do one universe than multiples. Besides for the fact that you have to calculate all of the worlds anyway just to get a single world.