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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

Many worlds of quantum mechanics literally come into being in my room. When i do a measurement of a quantum systema, i'm not creating a different region of space far away. I'm i a whole nother parallel universe, and it's not located anywhere. They just exist simultaneously, ok? The worlds all are there a, with different amplitudes. And the amplitudes matter if we're talking about many worlds, but we're not talking about that to day. We're nottalking about the details of many worlds. The point is that there are many copies of my future self. So there's one copyn me right now. There's other copies that have descended from my past

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