Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [5]

Gribbin (1990: 243):

In the Everett interpretation, it is not that our choice of which spin component to measure forces the spin component of another particle, far away across the universe, to magically take up a complementary state, but rather that by choosing which spin component to measure we are choosing which branch of reality we are living in.  In that branch of superspace, the spin of the other particle always is complementary to the one we measure.  It is choice that decides which of the quantum worlds we measure in our experiments, and therefore which one we inhabit, not chance.  Where all possible outcomes of an experiment actually do occur, and each possible outcome is observed by its own set of observers, it is no surprise to find that what we observe is one of the possible outcomes of the experiment.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, 'our choice of which spin component to measure' does not force 'the spin component of another particle, far away across the universe, to magically take up a complementary state'.  Nor does it choose 'which branch of reality we are living in'.

Instead, measuring the spin component of a particle is construing experience as a statistical instance of meaning, and the complementary spin state of the other particle is another statistical instance of the same potential, in line with the probabilities inherent in that quantum potential.  There is no "magical" interaction (force) between instances (spins of particles).  The "choosing of realities" is the construing of different instances of meaning from the same potential.