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Do you account for the fact that probability distributions can have multiple peaks with equal probability? If multiple brains were involved, they'd somehow have to coordinate on what they deem the most likely outcome.

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Our brains all use the program, but we can see when some of these programs have a glitch. Take some LSD and you will see what I mean.

> probability distributions can have multiple peaks with equal probability?

I think I know where you are going, but can you be more clear so I do not confuse things with my assumptions?

Say there is a quantum system – a particle or something – that has an equal probability to collapse in either of two classical states if measured. Say there are two scientists in a laboratory who perform a measurement on that system. If your hypothesis is true, how do they agree on what they perceive when looking at the result of the measurement? Each brain would have to make an arbitrary decision on which of the two equally likely outcomes to perceive.

Well, consider some of the political disagreements we've had in the last decade or so, we have ample evidence that two different people can look at the exact same thing and arrive at opposite conclusions.

How do all calculators know that 2+2=4?

But our mental system is not as perfect. Because a person with schizophrenia or someone on LSD they surely not see the same things we do.

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