Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [8]

Gribbin (1990: 252-3):

The puzzle is why a world ideal for life should have appeared out of the Big Bang.  The anthropic principle says that many possible worlds may exist, and that we are the inevitable product of our kind of universe.  But where are the other worlds?  Are they ghosts, like the interacting worlds of the Copenhagen interpretation?  Do they correspond to different life cycles of the whole universe, before the Big Bang that began time and space as we know them?  Or could they be Everett's many worlds, all existing at right angles to our own?  It seems to me that this is by far the best explanation available today, and that the resolution of the fundamental puzzle of why we see the universe the way it is amply compensates for the load of baggage carried by the Everett interpretation. … All worlds are equally real, but only suitable worlds contain observers.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this simply confuses potential (possible worlds) with instances of that potential (actual worlds).  Such 'worlds' are meanings, construed of experience.