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Parallel Dialogues: What LLM Inference Can (and Cannot) Teach Us About the Many-Worlds Interpretation — A Companion Note

Earth Vitaly Shcherbak — Institution: Montenegro, San Francisco) Claude (Anthropic PBC

Published Sep 15, 2026• 0 citations
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A companion note to "Evidence for the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics via Large Language Model Architecture" (10.5281/zenodo.20533902). Revisits the structural analogy between parallel LLM inference and Everettian branching honestly: identifies what the analogy illustrates well (shared origin, isolated states, irreversible branch selection) and where it breaks down as physics — chiefly, the analogy is externally observable in a way that MWI branches, by construction, cannot be.

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10.5281/zenodo.22759485

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