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Buckeye_Democrat

(15,526 posts)

6. Sure, and a many-worlds interpretation could also...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 04:47 AM

Oct 2021

... lead to a parallel universe that violates thermodynamics with entropy decreasing over time -- i.e., a universe among the infinite others in which the collection of all improbable events actually occur.

Not buying it, and it's pretty pointless to me anyway.

I'm also annoyed by any presentation that implies, even slightly, that "measurement" or "observation" in quantum mechanics demands sentience. The "measurement" happens whenever there's energy transfer, whether it's a wall or a human eye.