You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

TheAncientGeek comments on [LINK] The Wrong Objections to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - Less Wrong Discussion

17 [deleted] 19 February 2015 06:06PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (101)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 February 2015 11:41:25AM *  -1 points [-]

As for your argument, the idea there aren't many worlds requires an extra collapse postulate,

If you have realism about the evolution of state according to the Schroedinger equation, then you need an extra collapse postulate to avoid many worlds.. But you don't have to have realism about state, so there are ways of avoiding many worlds without introducing collapse.

Comment author: TobyBartels 01 March 2015 09:21:04AM 1 point [-]

It would be very helpful if you would spell out these initialisms/acronyms.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 01 March 2015 09:49:40AM 1 point [-]

Edited.