The Many Worlds Interpretation Of The Wave Function Of The Universe Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: 384):

The correct way to calculate the probabilities that describe the behaviour of the Universe (or any system that includes an observer) is to use the alternative interpretation of quantum physics, the so-called Many Worlds Interpretation, in which the effects of all the possible wave functions for the system can, in principle, be calculated and added together, using Feynman's path integral (or "sum over histories") technique to produce an overall mathematical description of the system and how it gets from state A to state B. …

But as Hawking has pointed out on several occasions, a combination of the Many Worlds Interpretation and sum over histories is the only way to approach a quantum description of the Universe — and in this case the "sum over histories" is literally that, an adding together of all the possible ways in which the Universe could evolve.

Blogger Comments:

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, Everett's 'Many Worlds Interpretation' of quantum physics is neither the "correct" way, nor the "only" way to describe any system that includes an observer.  This false inference derives from the confusion of first and second order experience, as pointed out in the previous post.  More importantly, Everett's 'Many Worlds Interpretation'  confuses potential with instances — possible worlds that could evolve with an actual world that did — as explained in previous posts.