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1 Post author: PhilGoetz 23 January 2011 10:46PM

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Comment author: Document 25 January 2011 12:50:49AM 0 points [-]

If MWI were wrong, it would raise the question "if our survival to this point was so improbable, how come we did survive?". Our existence would be evidence that we were wrong about the improbability.

Comment author: Eneasz 25 January 2011 01:45:09AM 1 point [-]

Yes, what he said.

I'm still not really convinced there are actual macro-level differences between universes though, which kinda puts the whole thing back into doubt.