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by acqq 4365 days ago
On that level I don't have any problem with "many worlds" as it can be seen just a one more extrapolation of "we're not in the designed special position" principle: first we're not the center around which the planets circle, then our Sun also isn't the center of our set of stars, then our set of stars is one of many other galaxies... if our physical universe is just a lucky variant of other possible (and mostly uninteresting) universes, it at least doesn't appear surprising.
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But there is an important difference - you can observe the other stuff in our universe and therefore know that we are not (exceptionally) special in our universe. Other universes are usually per definition completely outside of our reach, as hard to grab as a god or Russell's teapot.
> completely outside of our reach, as hard to grab as a god or Russell's teapot.

I agree! As in my other comments here, as long as there isn't any scientific result, I also won't regard the products of the proponents of such "interpretations" better than you.

Well, they're not completely outside our reach. Interference between our worlds and nearby ones is very testable, and the reason the theory exists.
That makes it out of reach. You cannot falsify the many-worlds-interpretation simply with interference. All other interpretations make the very same predictions.