Does Many Worlds Alter the Probability of Other Intelligent Life Forms in the Universe?

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Many worlds explains everything. There's no extra stuff fitsjust there's a wave function. It evolves according to the shortenger equation. When does the universe split? When quanta mechanical systems that are in a superposition become entangled with their environment, a k a, decoherence. Marco tauser says many worlds alter the probability you assign to there being other intelligent life forms in the universe. For example, could ns occur many times throughout the multiverse, but only once or on one planet in a typical intelligence hosting universe? So yes, i think it does.

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