there is another argument speaking for many-worlds (indeed, even for all possible worlds—which raises new interesting questions of what is possible of course—certainly not everything that is imaginable): that to specify one universe with many random events requires lots of information, while if everything exists the information content is zero—which fits nicely with ex nihilo nihil fit
Now THAT’s an interesting argument for MWI. It’s not a final nail in the coffin for de Broglie-Bohm, but the naturalness of this property is certainly compelling.
Although Tegmark incidentally endorses MWI, Tegmark’s MUH does not entail MWI. Yes, if there’s a model of MWI, then some world follows MWI; but our world can be a part of a MUH ensemble without being in an MWI-bound region of the ensemble. We may be in a Bohmian portion of the ensemble.
Tegmark does seem to think MWI provides some evidence for MUH (which would mean that MUH predicts MWI over BM), but I think the evidence is negligible at best. The reasons to think MWI is true barely overlap at all with the reasons to think MUH is. In fact, the failure of Ockham to resolve BM v. MW could well provide evidence against MUH; if MWI (say) turned out to be substantially more complex (in a way that gives it fewer models) and yet true, that would give strong anthropic evidence against MUH. MUH is more plausible if we live in the kind of world that should predominate in the habitable zone of an ensemble.
Now THAT’s an interesting argument for MWI. It’s not a final nail in the coffin for de Broglie-Bohm, but the naturalness of this property is certainly compelling.
Although Tegmark incidentally endorses MWI, Tegmark’s MUH does not entail MWI. Yes, if there’s a model of MWI, then some world follows MWI; but our world can be a part of a MUH ensemble without being in an MWI-bound region of the ensemble. We may be in a Bohmian portion of the ensemble.
Tegmark does seem to think MWI provides some evidence for MUH (which would mean that MUH predicts MWI over BM), but I think the evidence is negligible at best. The reasons to think MWI is true barely overlap at all with the reasons to think MUH is. In fact, the failure of Ockham to resolve BM v. MW could well provide evidence against MUH; if MWI (say) turned out to be substantially more complex (in a way that gives it fewer models) and yet true, that would give strong anthropic evidence against MUH. MUH is more plausible if we live in the kind of world that should predominate in the habitable zone of an ensemble.