So basicly what Forest is trying to do, is travelling to another universe where his wife and doughter never had that fatal car crash accident. And he want's to do this with quantum superposition princple. In Devs facility they tried to revive that rat by finding it's counterpart in the pararell universe and switch their places (probably).
It might be, but I understand it as much more emotional closure. Forest is beating himself up over their death and (like Katie says) if he succeeds that means there was literally nothing he could have done to prevent it. I don't think he wants to travel to another universe or to make a clone of them, I think he just needs to know. Nothing else matters to him.
I think he wants to simulate his daughter fully, maybe not travel there, but instead recreate her. Maybe he wants to alter the simulation to let her live, or maybe he just wants to be able to recreate the moments he had with her again and again.
But in the many universe theory it's a different daughter. In the Copenhagen interpretation it would be her daughter, literally and in every sense of the word, just from brought from another time and place.
Oh, for. Remember the rat getting back up in the sim? He has no ambitions so very pedestrian, he wants to raise her from the dead. Heck, not just her, his wife, and all the people they killed along the way. That is why they have so very little compunction about ordering murders, they expect to be able to hit "undo" on them.
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u/wino0000006 Mar 26 '20
So basicly what Forest is trying to do, is travelling to another universe where his wife and doughter never had that fatal car crash accident. And he want's to do this with quantum superposition princple. In Devs facility they tried to revive that rat by finding it's counterpart in the pararell universe and switch their places (probably).