You didn’t quite say ‘choose what is true’, I was just pointing out how closely what you wrote matched certain anti-epistemologies :-)
I’m also saying that if you think the other worlds ‘collapse’ then your intuitions will collide with reality when you have to account for one of those other worlds decohering something you were otherwise expecting not to decohere.
But this is relatively minor in this context.
Also, unless I misunderstood you, your last point is not relevant to the truth-value of the claim, which is what we’re discussing here, not it’s social benefit (or whatever).
the truth-value of the claim, which is what we’re discussing here
More precisely, it’s what you’re discussing. (Perhaps you mean I should be!) In the OP I discussed the implications of an infinitely divisible system for heuristic purposes without claiming such a system exists in our universe. Professionally, I use Newtonian mechanics to get the answers I need without believing Einstein was wrong. In other words, I believe true insights can be gained from imperfect accounts of the world (which is just as well, since we may well never have a perfect account). But that doesn’t mean I deny the value of worrying away at the known imperfections.
You didn’t quite say ‘choose what is true’, I was just pointing out how closely what you wrote matched certain anti-epistemologies :-)
I’m also saying that if you think the other worlds ‘collapse’ then your intuitions will collide with reality when you have to account for one of those other worlds decohering something you were otherwise expecting not to decohere. But this is relatively minor in this context.
Also, unless I misunderstood you, your last point is not relevant to the truth-value of the claim, which is what we’re discussing here, not it’s social benefit (or whatever).
More precisely, it’s what you’re discussing. (Perhaps you mean I should be!) In the OP I discussed the implications of an infinitely divisible system for heuristic purposes without claiming such a system exists in our universe. Professionally, I use Newtonian mechanics to get the answers I need without believing Einstein was wrong. In other words, I believe true insights can be gained from imperfect accounts of the world (which is just as well, since we may well never have a perfect account). But that doesn’t mean I deny the value of worrying away at the known imperfections.