The Realness of Probabilities Before Decoherence

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In the real world, our expectations are set by some subset of everything that happens in the universe. When I say the preposterous universe, it's a reminder that there is something that we don't yet understand. And so we're working to understand it better. Anonymous says ontological question about many worlds does many worlds say anything about the realness of probabilities before decoherence? "I'm sorry, but it's a slightly too fuzzy question for me to answer accurately," he replies.

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