Post 46: Quantum Mechanics and AI Consciousness: Part 4. The Major Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
This topic is one of my favorites and one that we will have to revisit. It is really hard to do it any justice at all without the conversation becoming absurdly long. As a result we mostly focus on the Many-Worlds interpretation.
The Many-Worlds is interpretation is one that almost everyone knows about, (whether they know it or not), because it is where all of the Sci-Fi tropes about infinite realities come from. The thing not everyone knows though, is that this is a legitimate interpretation of a real phenomenon and a serious contender in quantum mechanics! Many-Worlds is one of the most widely discussed interpretations among physicists, with a significant number of credible supporters in the field.
Since at the moment essentially none of the major interpretations of quantum mechanics are directly testable, I think Many-Worlds is sometimes dismissed just because it is so, well. . . weird. However, all of this is weird, and if we dismissed things just for being weird and counter-intuitive we would never get anywhere in science.
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