Brains in Branes - The Multiverse

Are Many Worlds and the Multiverse the Same Idea?

"The situation in quantum mechanics is superficially entirely different. Think of Schrödinger’s Cat. Quantum mechanics describes reality in terms of wave functions, which assign numbers (amplitudes) to all the various possibilities of what we can see when we make an observation. The cat is neither alive nor dead; it is in a superposition of alive + dead. At least, until we observe it. In the simplistic Copenhagen interpretation, at the moment of observation the wave function “collapses” onto one actual possibility. We see either an alive cat or a dead cat; the other possibility has simply ceased to exist. In the Many Worlds or Everett interpretation, both possibilities continue to exist, but “we” (the macroscopic observers) are split into two, one that observes a live cat and one that observes a dead one. There are now two of us, both equally real, never to come back into contact." Sean in Discover

This is the essence of Virnor Vinge's universe in the XXX trilogy. I travel forward and backward in time and all I carry with 'me' is a poor cartoon version of reality. When I look at a statue in the park for example, I am bombarded by not only the image of the statue but within gestalt, a vast ensemble of textures remembered, not seen with the eye.

Google Docs this one, I have drawings.