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- Everettian FAPP solipsism as illustrated by Norsen implies some pretty strange stuff. But doesn't seem to deny the existence of other observers. Can someone more literate summarise this for me?
Travis Norsen in his paper Quantum Solipsism and Non-Locality seems to believe that Everettian QM implies some sort of solipsism. He falls it FAPP (for all present purposes) solipsism. (I must say that as a geologist this goes over my head a bit!)
However I have recently read Sean Carrolls Something Deeply Hidden and did not get the impression that this is at all what Many Worlds interpretation even slightly implies.
Many Worlds appeared to me as a strictly realist interpretation where different versions of ourselves become part of different branches of the wave function following a quantum measurement.
Not at all that other observers don't exist.
However I also don't think this is what Norsen implies. As he says, solipsism is ridiculous. The paper is here for reference
http://www.ijqf.org/wps/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Norsen-Bell-paper.pdf
Any advice would be appreciated.
However I have recently read Sean Carrolls Something Deeply Hidden and did not get the impression that this is at all what Many Worlds interpretation even slightly implies.
Many Worlds appeared to me as a strictly realist interpretation where different versions of ourselves become part of different branches of the wave function following a quantum measurement.
Not at all that other observers don't exist.
However I also don't think this is what Norsen implies. As he says, solipsism is ridiculous. The paper is here for reference
http://www.ijqf.org/wps/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Norsen-Bell-paper.pdf
Any advice would be appreciated.