Does anyone else suspect that the last full paragraph is meant to give us the assignment for tomorrow morning?
As for my answers, I think that the particulars of this paradigm shift have to enter into it on some level— because as Eliezer pointed out earlier, the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment really should have suggested the possibility of superimposed observers to someone, and from there the MWI doesn’t seem too remote.
So I’d have to ascribe the delay in the MWI proposal in great part to the fact that it doesn’t immediately cohere with our subjective experience of consciousness, and that the physicists were culturally separated from other disciplines (including even philosophy and literature) that were proposing less naive interpretations of consciousness.
Does anyone else suspect that the last full paragraph is meant to give us the assignment for tomorrow morning?
As for my answers, I think that the particulars of this paradigm shift have to enter into it on some level— because as Eliezer pointed out earlier, the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment really should have suggested the possibility of superimposed observers to someone, and from there the MWI doesn’t seem too remote.
So I’d have to ascribe the delay in the MWI proposal in great part to the fact that it doesn’t immediately cohere with our subjective experience of consciousness, and that the physicists were culturally separated from other disciplines (including even philosophy and literature) that were proposing less naive interpretations of consciousness.