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And note that the original question by @Demystifier that prompted this subthread, in context, was: That looks to me like he was asking...

If you give it the literal intepretation you are, yes. But many would not; they would just interpret it as shorthand for what I...

In the sense I described in post #110.

Any reference by an MWI proponent. But see my post #110 in response to @Fra for some more unpacking.

That depends on which interpretation of QM you adopt. You appear to be adopting an "information interpretation", where the wave function...

It is in the MWI.

Not really. Pauli first formulated the exclusion principle in 1925, but then it was just an ad hoc assumption. Proving it required the...

"Emergent" is a theoretical concept. If we have a theory that says gravity is emergent, we can test the theory. But we can't just do an...

I'm amazed by the length of this thread. In a sense, it confirms what I've often thought about statistics and probability: the rules...

The probability of a Monty Hall thread being only 2 posts long is substantially less than 1/3.

I thought of another angle. Imagine the game is played simultaneously by three players, each with their own instance of the game. In...

Another way to show that this is a false claim is to directly calculate the amount of information entropy before and after opening the...

It was far easier than I had thought. Bayes theorem is $$P(H|E)=\frac{P(E|H) \ P(H)}{P(E)}$$ There are ##N## doors. The contestant...

This is false. They know that the probability of the originally chosen door being a winner is 1/N. They know that N-2 other doors have...

You're not calculating probabilities here. Probabilities can be tested by experiment. If we played this game repeatedly, then I could...