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-2 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: Mallah 18 April 2012 09:25:57PM -1 points [-]

Mitchell, you are on to an important point: Observers must be well-defined.

Worlds are not well-defined, and there is no definite number of worlds (given standard physics).

You may be interested in my proposed Many Computations Interpretation, in which observers are identified not with so-called 'worlds' but with implementations of computations: http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0544

See my blog for further discussion: http://onqm.blogspot.com/