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Recently I read about the Many Worlds Interpretation which basically suggests that reality is splitting all the time at an insane rate due to interactions in the environment. Some of the top physicists in the world are proponents of this interpretation, so a 1/3-1/2 chance of it being true might not be unreasonable. The obsession basically is that because the amount of branches and versions of me and others downstream of my actions are nearly infinite, that everything I do has potentially infinite stakes. For example, if I drive, a percentage of a near infinite set of branches now contain premature death and suffering that wouldn’t have otherwise. Even things as simple as turning on the lights now seem like cosmic genocide. I have no idea if it’s even possible to get over this obsession. Any advice?

The basic idea is this; by being a living, breathing organism you increase the amount of decoherence events (more-so than being an inert object). Decoherence events trigger branching. More branching means more conscious minds. If the universe contains more suffering than pleasure, you’re essentially fabricating more realities where suffering dominates. The scope of it is what’s really mind-boggling; even by moving your finger you might fabricate a near infinite amount of conscious experience that wouldn’t exist otherwise. I haven’t settled on an answer here.