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Demystifier said:I'm afraid I don't understand it. In my understanding of practical utility of quantum mechanics, each branch at a given time corresponds to one and only one possible measurement outcome at this time. Therefore, at each time it is enough to assign a probability to each branch at that time. How do you comment on this?
Yes, I guess that is true with regard to the practical utility of QM (but depending on what you mean by "to each branch at that time"). At each point in time you would have to assign a probability to each branch in the future of that time. That may be enough for practical purposes (but don't ask me to prove it - what if an action I take depends on a calculated probability of an event that will never occur due to the fact that I calculated its probability), as it would provide a probability for each potential event that will happen in some branch of the Universe, rather than one for each event that could happen.