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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
I will answer this as philosophical question. It seems to me that the MWI violates the principle of parsimony because it introduces unnecessary complexity. If it does not resolve the issue that it ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
No, the populist idea of MWI does not eliminate randomness- it just spreads it across multiple universes. According to MWI, if you were to repeatedly toss a quantum dice, there would be some worlds, ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
This is just a variant of "why am I me and not someone else?". It doesn't matter whether you and the someone else are in the same room, or so far from each other that their observable ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
The crucial advantage of MWI is not that it eliminates randomness, but that it eliminates the complexity of "wavefunction collapse."
The Copenhagen interpretation needs to explain when the ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
To my understanding, it's exactly the other way around. Since that "randomness" was not so random at the end, God (as an underlying principle of the phenomena) was not playing dice. So in ...
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What kind of philosophy of the foundations of physics can there be?
Hmmm. I am not a logician, and just the abstract of that link appears to be in a foreign language to me!
However, I think I can answer your question anyway.
There were two different things that ...
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What kind of philosophy of the foundations of physics can there be?
I have looked at your citation, and think that the topos approach may have merit. I would like to answer your more general question in your second bullet point about the philosophical foundation of ...
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How does Quantum Mechanics affect the modern account of free will and determinism?
The question of free will is not "could it have been otherwise?' It is "could I have had an effect on the outcome?" Could I have chosen an ice cream and thereby affect the outcome? The ...
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How does Quantum Mechanics affect the modern account of free will and determinism?
Your question is impossible to answer decisively because there are so many conflicting interpretations of what free will means, and so many conflicting theories associated with each interpretation. ...
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How does Quantum Mechanics affect the modern account of free will and determinism?
The question depends on what kind of stuff the universe is made of. Is it material, mental, or a combination of both? Some forms of panpsychism propose the latter. Bell's Theorem suggests a possible ...
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Is quantum entanglement an example of consciousness at the quantum level?
There is no evidence that consciousness influences quantum mechanics. For starter’s what would be the physical mechanism behind this? Secondly, what is so special about quantum mechanics that it could ...
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Is quantum entanglement an example of consciousness at the quantum level?
I am going to answer my own question before certain people close it. My answer is that I do not know. It is worthy of consideration. As a scientist and a philosopher, my hypothesis is that ...
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Can Everett's interpretation be used to undermine any inference to design?
Has anyone ever made an estimate how many different worlds arise
within a fixed time period - e.g. within 4 billion years - from Everett’s many-worlds interpretation?
Each single quantum event ...
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Can Everett's interpretation be used to undermine any inference to design?
No. Everett's PhD thesis is available online, and what he says in it bears no resemblance to the subsequent popularisations. Even if, heaven help me, you suppose that there are multiple versions of ...
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Can Everett's interpretation be used to undermine any inference to design?
By definition, design needs a designer. We have experience with a few types that we know exist and (generally) what they are capable of:
Humans
Some primates
Social insects (ok, maybe pushing the ...
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Can Everett's interpretation be used to undermine any inference to design?
No. And the answer is actually provided in your own question:
Of course, this is not to say that one can use this to say that a sand castle arising by itself is more likely than a person creating it....
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