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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Many worlds interpretation.
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:51:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 06:51:45 1984
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In article <753@ttds.UUCP> alf@ttds.UUCP (Thomas Sj|land) writes:
>The "Many Worlds"-interpretation of reality seems to have the nice property
>that "messages from the future" is not such a counter-intuitive
>notion in that model as in more traditional ones. If we receive such a
>message, we simply do not know which one of the possible futures sent it !
>Since all possible events occur in parallel the violation of "causality"
>caused by such a message would not be such a big deal.
>Has anyone got any pointers to some understandable text about the model
>for amateur philosophers-physicists like myself ?

(At the risk of offending scientific world-views...) About once or twice
a year I seem to have quite precognative dreams.  The first time I
recognized it, I was so shook up (since such a thing is impossible)
that I just blocked it out of my mind refusing to admit the event.

After about a year I lost some of my fear and investigated a little
deeper into what was going on.  I started writing my dreams down and
dating them regularly.  The biggest problem (after I got over my
scientific prejedices about refusing to admit such things were possible)
is determining how conclusive an event was predicted via dream content.

But, to the point.  I have a fascination with any physical theory which
would admit to the possibility of precognition. Any good references
would be appreciated.

To: those who think precognition impossible.  I once did too.  Without
    evidence to the contrary you *should* think it impossible.  Whether
    or not you would come to the same conclusion with the same experiences
    I had - I think would vary from person to person.
To: those who think they have had precognative dreams (or waking experiences)
    feel free to contact me.  Working at Motorola and other high-tech
    places has shown me most people are too afraid to mention their
    situations in front of others, but once they don't feel threatened
    it is quite enlightening to see the number that have  experiences.
    (Of course the difficult part is determining how genuine the experience
    is.  For most cases there is no way to tell.)
To: those who wish to debate the possibility, perhaps net.philosophy.

Motorola Semiconductor                   Dave Trissel
Austin, Texas         {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}|ut-sally|oakhill|davet