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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Blimey, Rimey (QM & Many-Worlds)
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 08:36:36 EST
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>You assert that in one universe, the experimenter BOTH thinks "aha, the result
>was E1" and "aha, the result was E2".  But that's manifestly false -- at least
>it's manifest to the experimenter, because he knows damn well that he's only
>thinking ONE of those thoughts.  UNLESS:  unless you suppose that after the
>experiment, two consciousnesses inhabit the one body (presumably corresponding
>to two brain states superposed in the same brain).  Well, you can avoid
>contradictions that way, but the resulting view is -- to put it nicely -- 
>weird.

So what?  For decades now, physics has been weird.  Even from the physicists'
point of view, it's weird.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720