Adam Becker

Sweet.

So then there's two copies, but somehow you're more likely to be the copy that sees the living cat.

And this is another part of the problem, right?

Because quantum physics famously only gives you answers in terms of probabilities almost all of the time.

But the Schrodinger equation isn't a random equation.

It's completely determined.

So where do the probabilities come from?

Well, they come in when you use this other rule, the Born rule.

One way of thinking about this is to say, oh, well, sure, you know that when you open the box, you're going to split, but you don't know which universe you're going to be in when you open the box.

You don't know which branch of the wave function that you're going to be in.

And so this rule is about figuring out the probability that you're going to be in the branch with a living cat or a dead cat.

It gets really trippy.

You know, I don't.

go through my life assuming that there are multiple copies of me well so part of the reason is that i don't subscribe to the many worlds interpretation i think it's a reasonable option but i don't know that it's the right answer i don't know what the right answer is and i don't think i don't think anybody can say for sure that they know what the right answer is here um because we don't have a good scientific consensus on this debate but i mean in my everyday life

I mean, I don't know.

I think I'm a pretty regular guy.

I just do things the way I do them.

Yeah, that's not, that's definitely not how I approach my life.

I do not recommend that anybody do that.

Do not try that at home.