Everett’s Multiverse and the World as Wavefunction
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I have no particular comment for the author but my comment for the editor was:
"This paper is a good review/overview of current problems and controversies in Everettian quantum theory. It should be published."
Reviewer 2 Report
I have no essential objections as to the publication of this paper. The point I would like to make however is that I always wonder about the scope of the epistemological foundations from which works like this are being started: Because it is measurements and models in the first place that is discussed, we deal mainly with mapping techniques. As far as they go, this paper moves within the common boundaries of a discourse which represents the state of the art in a special field of analytical philosophy. But concepts such as "ontology" are not in order then, because they imply that we do more than just mapping (projecting rather) the world according to our models. This is not the case however. But for discussing the real difference between beingness and what we experience as being, we need different approaches emerging from a modernized version of natural philosophy proper. By the way: As far as I can see, Maximilian Schlosshauer's book on Decoherence (Springer 2007!) solves most of the problems discussed here.
