How Advaita Vedanta validates Many worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
In Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) practise, when the ego
construct dissolves via Yogic practices or meditation, the experience of Self (Atman) localized to the individual is now
experienced in the absence of individuality i.e. no separation from other
living or non-living beings in the universe. This non-individual experience is
termed Brahman-a vast infinite still field of potentialities .
In the quantum mechanics when a measurement occurs a wave is observed as a particle. The wave is a field of potentialities and the wave function is a mathematical description of a physical system defining the probability amplitude of a particles’ probabilities. According to the many-worlds interpretation, during a measurement all possible outcomes of a quantum event occur in its own distinct universe, but the observed outcome is experienced in one universe. This measurement outcome is similar to the experience of a localized self i.e the atman, which is actually a part of all possible outcomes which can occur only in a field of infinite possibilities or Brahman.
The difference between Advaita Vedanta and the Many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is that Brahman as a field of infinite possibilities/potentialities is Self-Aware, while Many Worlds does not make any such statement.
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