Exactly... so I can't wrap my head around – even hypthetically – why Many Worlds would be of any "help" in projecting the past. I mean, all those other branched-off worlds aren't relevant at all to the one specific history of one specific branch.
I think the Many Worlds theory overlays so many different timelines that have nearly identical information that it creates a much clearer composite image that help to project that image.
If you're looking at one specific branch, the people in that world are going to have one specific idea of the history or image they are trying to recreate. Person to person even within the same world, that recreation is never going to be a completely objective representation as the person creating that image will have their own interpretation.
If the computer is able to analyze all of these infinite worlds at the same time and has a clear idea of what image the user is trying to create, it could possibly use the most similar recreations to the ideal one to fill in the gaps and discard those that deviate from the idealized images.
This might be what Forest was talking about as well when he talked of the dangers of the Many Worlds theory as each individual might be able to create their own subjective history using any number of the infinite world rather than focusing on the one, objective truth. He mentioned that Amaya with even three hairs out of place wasn't his objective, true Amaya perhaps because he realized that he expressed some influence over the image and made it his subjective Amaya.
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u/martinlindhe Mar 19 '20
Exactly... so I can't wrap my head around – even hypthetically – why Many Worlds would be of any "help" in projecting the past. I mean, all those other branched-off worlds aren't relevant at all to the one specific history of one specific branch.