> how I as an observer end up in one of the many bifurcations..
Just a pleb here, but that does not stop me from thinking about it..
I think your consciousness is a function of the world you belong. So asking why your are in a certain world, and not in other, is like asking why you are born to your specific parents, and not to others.
So you don't end up in some fork, by a roll of dice, you are already confined to, and defined by a single branch.
So I don't think the exact "you" don't exist in another branch. But another consciousness that only differ from "you" by only a single random event (ie you and this consciousness only differ from you in the observation of a single random event) exist in another branch.
And it is not like this is all orchestrated by some entity. It is just how consciousness and subjective experiences emerges in mathematical structures (+ the set of random events), that does not need rendering anywhere (Mathematical Universe Hypothesis).
Once you understand the hopeless inevitablity of existence, a lot of questions like "When", "how", or "why" of our existence disappears.
You can ask if there is any proof for this, except for some thought experiment. But I think the only thing that can come close to proving this is if we exhaustively searched for other extra terrestrial consciousness and don't find any.
Just a pleb here, but that does not stop me from thinking about it..
I think your consciousness is a function of the world you belong. So asking why your are in a certain world, and not in other, is like asking why you are born to your specific parents, and not to others.
So you don't end up in some fork, by a roll of dice, you are already confined to, and defined by a single branch.
So I don't think the exact "you" don't exist in another branch. But another consciousness that only differ from "you" by only a single random event (ie you and this consciousness only differ from you in the observation of a single random event) exist in another branch.
And it is not like this is all orchestrated by some entity. It is just how consciousness and subjective experiences emerges in mathematical structures (+ the set of random events), that does not need rendering anywhere (Mathematical Universe Hypothesis).
Once you understand the hopeless inevitablity of existence, a lot of questions like "When", "how", or "why" of our existence disappears.
You can ask if there is any proof for this, except for some thought experiment. But I think the only thing that can come close to proving this is if we exhaustively searched for other extra terrestrial consciousness and don't find any.