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3 Post author: DavidPlumpton 30 August 2011 08:23AM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 30 August 2011 09:58:59AM *  0 points [-]

can I get some comments about whether I'm on the right track or way off base?

You're dead right.

EDIT: The standard LessWrong view (and that given in Good and Real) is that the idea of freezing time and finding yourself at a particular point is a Mind Projection Fallacy. The wave function is defined for each time and each point in configuration space, and just sits there as a "fixed" crystal. Then the illusion of a single universe is created by the fact that at each point in configuration space we have consistent memories of just one universe.