Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

[John Clark]

My answer would be YES, except that Many worlds just needs Schrodinger's Equation, but Pilot Wave theory also needs a very complex guiding equation that does nothing but make the theory incompatible with special relativity. If Occam's razor alone wasn't enough to rule out Pilot Waves that should do it, this video goes in the more detail explaining why: 

  Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

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[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 6:19 AM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:

My answer would be YES, except that Many worlds just needs Schrodinger's Equation, but Pilot Wave theory also needs a very complex guiding equation that does nothing but make the theory incompatible with special relativity. If Occam's razor alone wasn't enough to rule out Pilot Waves that should do it, this video goes in the more detail explaining why: 

  Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

Nice video, thanks for sharing.

I agree. Both accept the continued reality of the wave function.

Pilot-wave theory adds purely philosophical assumptions, namely, that "all but one branch is not-really-real" and "everyone in those other branches is a philosophical zombie."

This zombiehood claim is made despite the fact that the people in these "not-really-real" branches still behave like the conscious people in the real branch; they have full lives, they talk to one another, they write books about consciousness, they develop a pilot-wave theory that people in other branches are zombies, etc.)

Jason 

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Bohmian Mechanics! Is there nothing it cannot do? 

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