People keep saying the many-worlds interpretation is untestable. Nothing could be farther from the truth! It's just a little bit expensive and ethically problematic
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Quantum suicide is more specific than many worlds; it excludes a situation where many worlds is true but each instantiation of an identical conscious algorithm is a separate consciousness. If we all died, we'd have no way of knowing whether it was because many worlds is false, or because consciousness doesn't "transfer" from destroyed worlds.
And even so, the proposition is still unfalsifiable - you can prove it true, but you can't prove it false, since if it's false your brain will be reduced to space dust before you can apprehend the fact.
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And even so, the proposition is still unfalsifiable - you can prove it true, but you can't prove it false, since if it's false your brain will be reduced to space dust before you can apprehend the fact.
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