At 08:24 AM 2/6/97 -0800,  Benjamin Franz wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Chris Hoffman wrote:

I think Hitomi once mentioned a belief/theory that every 'fictional'
universe actually exists, and is 'real' to itself?

Wasn't this also in the Undocumented Features series?

Heinlein did something like that in The Number of the Beast.  A good read,
especialy if you like crossovers.

Which is, of course, just a special case of the 'Many Worlds'
interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - which more than saying that every
*fictional* world really exists somewhere, says every *possible* (no
matter how improbable) world exists. So there is a world where everything
is exactly the same, except I didn't write this message. And one where the
only difference is that I actually finished this sen...

And Schrodinger's Cat is alive in one universe and dead in another...



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