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0 pointslisper4y ago0 comments

> Now let's modify the experiment to assume a hyper-intelligent cat, with access to a full physics laboratory inside of the box.

A.k.a. Wigner's Friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

> QM describes the cat leads to MW being true for the cat no matter what is ultimately true.

You should read this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05739-8

And this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06451v4

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btilly4y ago

In return for you https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3975 for a fundamental flaw in the Nature paper.

As for the differences between Convivial Solipsism and Many Worlds, I am indifferent to them. It is immaterial to me whether I am a singular observer who can only be aware of part of the wave function, or I am one component of a superposition of observers, each of which is only aware of part of the wave function.

I personally lean away from solipsism because I do not think that I, or my observation of reality, are that important. But that is a preference. And I don't have any particular justification for it or reason to disagree with anyone with the opposite opinion.

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