Classical Anthropic Everett model: indeterminacy in a preordained multiverse
arXiv:1203.0952
Abstract
Although ultimately motivated by quantum theoretical considerations, Everett's many-world idea remains valid, as an approximation, in the classical limit. However to be applicable it must in any case be applied in conjunction with an appropriate anthropic principle, whose precise formulation involves an anthropic quotient that can be normalised to unity for adult humans but that would be lower for infants and other animals. The outcome is a deterministic multiverse in which the only function of chance is the specification of one's particular identity.
11 pages Latex contribution to J. Cosmology 14, with extra diagram showing age dependence of anthropic quotient. Also in Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain and Mind, ed. R. Penrose, S. Hameroff, S. Kak (Cosmology Science Publishers, Cambridge, Mass., 2011) 1077-1086