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Mitchell_Porter comments on Scott Aaronson's cautious optimism for the MWI - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 19 August 2012 11:56:12PM 3 points [-]

With respect to Born probabilities, TI is on the level of MWI, it has no derivation for them. Similarly, its ontology is rhetorical rather than rigorous.

A central issue for any zigzag-in-time or retrocausal theory of QM would be vacuum polarization, which was the stumbling block for the most serious effort, by Feynman and Wheeler. But Feynman-Wheeler theory is also where the path integral was born, so TI advocates could say, we just need to go back and finish it properly.