can I get some comments about whether I’m on the right track or way off base?
You’re dead right.
EDIT: The standard LessWrong view (and that given in Good and Real) is that the idea of freezing time and finding yourself at a particular point is a Mind Projection Fallacy. The wave function is defined for each time and each point in configuration space, and just sits there as a “fixed” crystal. Then the illusion of a single universe is created by the fact that at each point in configuration space we have consistent memories of just one universe.
You’re dead right.
EDIT: The standard LessWrong view (and that given in Good and Real) is that the idea of freezing time and finding yourself at a particular point is a Mind Projection Fallacy. The wave function is defined for each time and each point in configuration space, and just sits there as a “fixed” crystal. Then the illusion of a single universe is created by the fact that at each point in configuration space we have consistent memories of just one universe.