Possible support for the Vex's limitations (Destiny)

by RaichuKFM , Northeastern Ohio, Wednesday, November 01, 2017, 18:53 (2658 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Future War Cult lore involves alternate timelines, right?

That said, I'll interject that quantum Many Worlds does not imply that every conceivable universe exists; there still has to be a reason the Vex haven't taken over yet, in all the instances where they haven't taken over yet.

This isn't directed at you, I just love to grouse about Many Worlds. There's just such an entrenched idea about how it works; the thought that every conceivably possible universe can and must exist, and the idea that the timeline branches with every decision. Human decisions should rarely, if ever, be indeterministic? Differences in quantum events would have to slowly build up (or less slowly, if they were drastic, or, say, being directly observed) until there is a distinct difference in circumstance, and thus a distinct decision.

Also, quantum immortality breaks when an iteration has a 50% chance of you being killed by whatever Schrodinger's cat scenario you're in, and a 50% chance of avoiding that but dying to some other cause. It's just such a silly idea. With Destiny, it's more like an anthropic principle, I think; the game by its nature follows timelines where you don't hit a game over screen, abandoning all those where you do.

While I'm on the subject, I may as well bemoan how popular the idea that 'consciousness causes collapse' has gotten. It's, literally supported by nothing but confirmation bias, and kind of sounds like magic? And really, if you're going with that idea, why go with the conclusion that consciousness does it- you can only confirm your own consciousness does! That wraps back around from magic powers of consciousness to just, solipsism.

Which brings me to my new interpretation of that classic thought experiment, Wigner's Friend:

The system doesn’t collapse when Wigner’s friend observes it.

When Wigner himself arrives, and is told of the result by his friend, the system still does not collapse.

Wigner and his friend are P-Zombies.

Okay I'll see myself out.