Re: Macroscopic Emergence in MWI worlds

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:56 AM, hibbsa <hibbsa-/[email protected]> wrote:

> > The issue arises when you converge, on the one hand, the
> requirements our own macroscopic world need to meet in order to be
> consistent, reliable, repeating and ultimately deterministic. With, on the
> other hand, the supposition all or most instances of quantum behaviour
> involves or is associated with some emergence.


If this is the issue, I'm not sure what the issue is.  Emergence generally
(not always, but mostly) smooths out low-level randomness or lumpiness into
consistent, reliable, deterministic macroscopic behavior, which is what
you're hoping for.  Low-level quantum phenomena have lots of randomness;
averaging over lots of those universes (or lots of instances in one
universe) gives nicely predictable emergent properties like temperature,
energy and entropy, or in another domain, predictable, stable giant ant
hills from fairly random individual ant behaviors.

ps: if you see this, it means I can post to FoR again.

-- 
Gary


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