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by Nevermark 102 days ago
Good questions.

> The future me would end up in one of two branches: I measure spin up, or I measure spin down.

The future "you's" would each see spin up, and spin down, respectively.

We are just as quantum as what we measure. There isn't a scale where entanglement and superposition turn into something else. No classical vs. quantum atoms.

Just as an up-spin qubit touching an up/down qubit results in an up-up qubit pair in superposition with an up-down superposition, conserving the qubit, when we touch a qubit we get "us"-up and "us"-down versions.

No information is created. None is destroyed. We experience a correlation = "collapse" (both versions of us), but the quantum information just continues on as before, qubit conserved.