Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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It will come as no shock to anyone w who's seen any of our previous discussions that uh I'm not an advocate of the Ever Redian approach to to quantum theory.
Surprise.
Um
If you read Hugh Everett's unpublished draft of his dissertation, um you can find this online.
Maybe uh Kurt, you could put a link to it.
Um it is beautifully written.
It has a very early uh but but fully formed version of the Wigner's friend thought experiment, which we've talked about before.
Um in that
dissertation and in some of his correspondence, in particular a letter that Hugh Everett wrote to Bryce DeWitt in nineteen fifty seven.
Bryce Stewart was a theoretical physicist.
who became aware of Everett's early work, had a number of questions, was initially very skeptical, eventually became a very strong advocate of Everett's approach.
At the time in 1957, he was very skeptical and had written to to Everett.
Everett wrote back to him.
Um and and there, I think in particular in that letter
Everett makes clear his problem with the
then existing dominant paradigm if I had to think about quantum theory.
The Copenhagen interpretation.
And Everett says very clearly that one of his problems with the Copenhagen interpretation.
So one of them is this hybrid nature of sometimes you have
an impersonal deterministic theory of the wave function evolving, and then other times you have this very personal, observer-oriented, probabilistic version of the theory when measurements are happening.
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