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by Jach 5702 days ago
Just so you know, the actual number of distinct many-worlds does not hurt the simplicity of the theory. Check out:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...

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I'm not saying it hurts the theory, I personally don't have a problem with it. I'm just saying the absurdity of it on face value is something not many people are going to grasp or understand.

I'm agnostic, if someone says "Why are we here?" I say "Because you wouldn't be asking the question if we weren't." I ask these questions about the universe because I can. I'm sure there's some little alien critter on another planet who's asking "why are we the only ones here?" and I'm sure there's a few billion of myself in existence, likely in the extreme of beliefs from Religious-right-wing-sociopath to Atheist-left-wing-sociopath.

Although, then again, I'm a writer so I don't really need a multiverse to be that schizophrenic, I already have a family of people living in my head.