I’m going to pull another Popperian move and ask, is there any way we can rule out all other explanations of the phenomenon and be left with exclusively the MWI?
There has never been and never will be a way to rule out all other explanations of any phenomenon and be left with only one hypothesis. What we can do is run experiments that show us that all the best competitors of our hypothesis are less probable than our hypothesis such that we can assign a very high probability to our hypothesis. I think we do that when once we rule out fraud and tampering. I can’t think of another explanation that is nearly as probable as MW+Anthropics(*). The supernatural explanations are vastly more improbable.
In other words, is the MWI interpretation falsifiable using our LHC experiments?
Maybe there was a typo but this isn’t a paraphrase of the previous question. Quantum immortality/MW is not falsifiable in the sense that to get really good evidence against it you’d have to die. But the major alternative can be falsified—you can continue living forever, so it isn’t like something supernatural at all.
I still don’t know what you mean by direct observation of the cause versus proximate observation.
Perhaps some helpful context: I think some kind of MW interpretation is probably true, QI less likely to be true, and the LHC destroying us if it runs very, very improbable.
(*) I should have noted earlier that I’m not positive quantum immortality follows from MW.
There has never been and never will be a way to rule out all other explanations of any phenomenon and be left with only one hypothesis. What we can do is run experiments that show us that all the best competitors of our hypothesis are less probable than our hypothesis such that we can assign a very high probability to our hypothesis. I think we do that when once we rule out fraud and tampering. I can’t think of another explanation that is nearly as probable as MW+Anthropics(*). The supernatural explanations are vastly more improbable.
Maybe there was a typo but this isn’t a paraphrase of the previous question. Quantum immortality/MW is not falsifiable in the sense that to get really good evidence against it you’d have to die. But the major alternative can be falsified—you can continue living forever, so it isn’t like something supernatural at all.
I still don’t know what you mean by direct observation of the cause versus proximate observation.
Perhaps some helpful context: I think some kind of MW interpretation is probably true, QI less likely to be true, and the LHC destroying us if it runs very, very improbable.
(*) I should have noted earlier that I’m not positive quantum immortality follows from MW.