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Many Worlds Branches Are Causally Connected, Unlike Lewis's

Many-worlds branches differ from Lewis's possible worlds because they are all spatiotemporally connected, growing from the same trunk and capable of physically interfering with one another, whereas Lewis's worlds are spatiotemporally disconnected; moreover branching is not a sharp physical event but a vague, threshold-dependent matter tied to decoherence.

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Speaker

Tim Maudlin

Evidence Quote

there's no real fact about when a branch when branching occurs it's not as if branching is a sharp physical event... it's a little bit vague where when a branch occurs or how many branches there are

Source

318 - Physics PhilosophyMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:58:49 AM

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