Comment by VirusNewbie
Comment by VirusNewbie 3 days ago
This person is making a mistake with Everettian mechanics, assuming there is branching, which is precisely not what is happening.
Comment by VirusNewbie 3 days ago
This person is making a mistake with Everettian mechanics, assuming there is branching, which is precisely not what is happening.
no, he talks about the perception of branching. The universe isn't branching, a coherent thread we observe is.
It's the difference between tracing a path on a graph, and seeing a graph change.
of course. I see the cat end up dead or alive, not in the superposition of both. Hence, I perceive a branch.
Everett used the same terminology