The question has been cooking in me for quite some time to that I don’t see an answer yet. It is a frequent pattern in sequences about quantum mechanics and Science that “there is no rational reason to even raise hypothesis X to attention or even assign it an actual probability”. This often is supported by mentioning how large the answer space is. While I can kind of guess where all the alternatives at to the “stupid theory” of Eliezer18, I plainly don’t see all the other alternative answers to the question of wavefunction collapse. While I agree that collapse is heavily penalized by Occam’s razor and also for being a chicken among swans, this seems like a primary source of improbability to me rather than large answer space.
P.S. I factor for postulates of exact details under which collapse happens, like “it happens because of human observation”. Such theories do belong to a quite obvious large answer space. I am mainly concerned with postulates like “collapse happens eventually, increasing its probability exponentially on the number of entangled particles”. Which is experimentally falsifiable, but I don’t see many analogous theories.
The question has been cooking in me for quite some time to that I don’t see an answer yet. It is a frequent pattern in sequences about quantum mechanics and Science that “there is no rational reason to even raise hypothesis X to attention or even assign it an actual probability”. This often is supported by mentioning how large the answer space is. While I can kind of guess where all the alternatives at to the “stupid theory” of Eliezer18, I plainly don’t see all the other alternative answers to the question of wavefunction collapse. While I agree that collapse is heavily penalized by Occam’s razor and also for being a chicken among swans, this seems like a primary source of improbability to me rather than large answer space.
P.S. I factor for postulates of exact details under which collapse happens, like “it happens because of human observation”. Such theories do belong to a quite obvious large answer space. I am mainly concerned with postulates like “collapse happens eventually, increasing its probability exponentially on the number of entangled particles”. Which is experimentally falsifiable, but I don’t see many analogous theories.