Here is yet another question to help me reveal my misunderstandings:
So, according to decoherence, a human believing that a quantum event with probability 50% occurs is equivalent to a “version” of a human brain becoming coupled with the amplitude blob corresponding to that 50%. The seeming complication that yet another “version” of a human brain is coupled with the other 50% of the amplitude distribution is all in our heads; the quantum physics giving rise to this “complication” is quite simple.
How about this experiment then? I set up an event that I know has two blobs A and B, each corresponding to 50% probabilities. I also set up, on the side, a two-slit experiment. I agree to myself beforehand that no matter the outcome of the event, I will cover one of the slits in my side experiment. As expected, no interference pattern occurs on the film.
Next, I do a similar experiment. This time, I only cover a slit on outcome A. If I find myself the version that observes outcome A, will I find 50% of an interference pattern caused by the amplitude distribution in the version of the world caused by outcome B, and importantly, the version of myself in outcome B that fails to over the slit?
If there is something wrong with this setup, might there not be another similar way to prove that other worlds exist?
Here is yet another question to help me reveal my misunderstandings:
So, according to decoherence, a human believing that a quantum event with probability 50% occurs is equivalent to a “version” of a human brain becoming coupled with the amplitude blob corresponding to that 50%. The seeming complication that yet another “version” of a human brain is coupled with the other 50% of the amplitude distribution is all in our heads; the quantum physics giving rise to this “complication” is quite simple.
How about this experiment then? I set up an event that I know has two blobs A and B, each corresponding to 50% probabilities. I also set up, on the side, a two-slit experiment. I agree to myself beforehand that no matter the outcome of the event, I will cover one of the slits in my side experiment. As expected, no interference pattern occurs on the film.
Next, I do a similar experiment. This time, I only cover a slit on outcome A. If I find myself the version that observes outcome A, will I find 50% of an interference pattern caused by the amplitude distribution in the version of the world caused by outcome B, and importantly, the version of myself in outcome B that fails to over the slit?
If there is something wrong with this setup, might there not be another similar way to prove that other worlds exist?