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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Many Worlds Interpretation - Why Are We in This One?

Many worlds theory imagines multiple versions of the universe are existing decoherently, that they've decohered from each other. They're real, but they're sort of, like, not accessible to us any more because weare only in one branch of the way function. This copy of ourselves is only in this branch, but there are other near identical copies in all the other branches. And so i was lead you down the garden path there, i think, to my major objection to the many worlds interpretation,. which is, like, why are we in this one?

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