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wedrifid comments on Problems of the Deutsch-Wallace version of Many Worlds - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 December 2011 01:51:41PM 1 point [-]

More precisely, in Many Minds, the only branching you care about is the branching of observers, and the only "parts of the whole" that are given existential status, are parts of the wavefunction which correspond to experiences.

Is this theory one that is advocated by actual physicists? If so that is scary!