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Do you think its possible we are living in a holographic universe?

Sure. Bad choices shrink the pool from which future choices are made. I am defining a good choice as one that enhances your life somehow. A bad choice can directly limit future choices in many possible ways. I can die, be paralyzed, go to jail (limiting my experience), and so on, but just as importantly, a bad choice adds to the information that those who made the choice possess. So the new information can be used to evaluate future choices, you can either learn from the mistake and make a different choice, or you can make another bad choice. So the multiverse by its very nature encourages good choice. It is a sort of free will from the perspective of someone who has access to all the universes, even if isn't directly so for each instance.

That's a very limited usage of the word "bad", and not what I've been talking about. I'm talking about good and bad in moral terms, where bad choices very rarely directly lead to life-altering consequences.
 
There will be universes where slight differences in the overall state of your brain (because of previous splits) will cause you to make different choices. It isn't the choice itself that causes the split. If the choice is possible, it will be represented.

So, absent free will, every other universe might well resemble this one on the macro level, as I understand you.

Edit: At least, every other universe with humans in it.
 
That's a very limited usage of the word "bad", and not what I've been talking about. I'm talking about good and bad in moral terms, where bad choices very rarely directly lead to life-altering consequences.

You expect me to evaluate a theory on the basis of whether it conforms to your personal view of morality? Since I don't share you brain, I can't really do that. I can only discuss choices that have consequences in physical reality.
 
So, absent free will, every other universe might well resemble this one on the macro level, as I understand you.

Edit: At least, every other universe with humans in it.

Resemble it in what way? There is a very large number of universes (practically infinite). Many will resemble this one, but others will be different. But they all share the same laws of physics and all the ones with humans will be similar to some extent.
 
I think this is what Hack was talking about

Quantum Information theory(zero worlds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc#t=3327
 
I would love to share some of the videos I have seen, but Youtube app changed and I haven't figured out how to copy the link. Maybe I haven't tried hard enough. If someone knows how to from the app on Samsung, let me know. It used to have URL at the top. Now I cant find it.

Anyways, the thread was about if we are living in a holographic universe. I got the idea from Leonard Susskind. If you are interested, search his name + holographic universe. He basically supports his theory with ideas about blackholes and what happens to the bits of information when an object is swallowed up by the black hole. The theory is the information is stored on the horizon kind of like a 2D holographic film sheet.
 
You expect me to evaluate a theory on the basis of whether it conforms to your personal view of morality? Since I don't share you brain, I can't really do that. I can only discuss choices that have consequences in physical reality.

I really don't understand your point of view in this dialog we've been having, although I've been trying, and I guess you can't understand mine either. So I suppose this has come to an end.

But just to make one last ditch effort, let's consider something like shoplifting. It's not a part of my personal view of morality, it's part of (nearly?) everyone's view of morality. And it certainly has consequences in physical reality. But it certainly won't lead to the death of the perpetrator.
 
Hey Siro, that reminds me--how does the many worlds view deal with the energy that would be needed to create all of those universes? I'm sure there's an answer, I just don't know what it is.

I thought the net energy of the universe was 0? Something about matter being positive energy, cancelled out by gravity as negative energy?
 
That video I posted had a lot of math that was over my head. I'd like to here your guys take on it. The guy that is speaking worked for Nasa jet propulsion lab and was the lead engineer for google adwords. It's not a crackpot video like the title makes it sound.
 
That video I posted had a lot of math that was over my head. I'd like to here your guys take on it. The guy that is speaking worked for Nasa jet propulsion lab and was the lead engineer for google adwords. It's not a crackpot video like the title makes it sound.

I saw the video was over an hour long, so couldn't watch it, sorry. Maybe later.
 
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