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Originally Posted by mszlazak  According to my reading of the papers I cited, the claim that Everett's many-worlds interpretation undermines the principle of parsimony appears totally wrong and just the opposite when compared to it's competitors. |
Many Worlds Theory is surely the ultimate violation of Occams Razor, an infinite amount of entities bursting into existence at every moment, each a whole universe. It is so ironic that reductionist materialists violate
'Do not introduce additional entities (including a universes of entities) beyond the minimum number required to explain a phenomenon' ...one wonders if the main logic behind multiple worlds theory is to remove anything resembling a consciousness and return to a classical logic system that otherwise collapses.
The long standing paranormal claim in eastern religion, western religion, new age beliefs and spiritualism ....... is often one of many worlds existing apart from our own. Materialism by adopting many worlds theory has now joined them!
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the best proposal so far for understanding probabilities in many-worlds is in terms of subjective probabilities (see again for instance David Wallace's papers). If that is the correct way to do it, then the fact that at the objective level of the wave function there might (possibly) be only an inexact correlate to the probabilities is not very worrying.
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But do you see where this might be going? As soon as you enter 'subjective probablilities' , 'inexact corrolations of probablities' one may argue that a instead of physical worlds splitting, minds are splliting.
Consciousness Re-encountered!
So why not a have tweaked a combination of those two theories, one hinting at consciousness (Copenhagen) , the other suggesting multiple worlds (MWT) so that instead of physical like worlds splitting, one proposes that minds and consciousness are (subjectively or objectively) splitting then we have a natural selection / evolutionary system that goes, far beyond our material reality. We can speculate that the brain evolved to filter out these other realities as 'interference' and that psychic phenomena is a weak effect due to the brain evolving to filter these outas an evolutionary disadvantage.
Perhaps one day people will indeed invent 'consciousness' on a computer but it might be on a quantum computer and with it is also lost the current paradigm of materialism and physical reality. We are all tempted to laugh at the idiocy of old religious ideas viewing our earth planet as the centre of the universe, perhaps future generations will laugh at our current paradigm of viewing our materialistic laws as the laws of all universes.....