Tomorrow I will address myself to accusations I have encountered that decoherence is “unfalsifiable” or “untestable”, as the words “falsifiable” and “testable” have (even simpler) probability-theoretic meanings which would seem to be violated by this usage.
Doesn’t this follow trivially from the above? No experiment can determine whether or not we have souls, but that counts against the idea of souls, not against the idea of their absence. If decoherence is the simpler theory, then lack of falsifiability counts against the other guys, not against it.
Tomorrow I will address myself to accusations I have encountered that decoherence is “unfalsifiable” or “untestable”, as the words “falsifiable” and “testable” have (even simpler) probability-theoretic meanings which would seem to be violated by this usage.
Doesn’t this follow trivially from the above? No experiment can determine whether or not we have souls, but that counts against the idea of souls, not against the idea of their absence. If decoherence is the simpler theory, then lack of falsifiability counts against the other guys, not against it.