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Comment author: quen_tin 23 September 2010 05:12:40PM -1 points [-]

Maybe it's not really an empirical fact, but then do you really think that past still "exist" and future already "exist" as well as present does ?

How to define existence ? That is the big question. What is reality ? Why has the past gone, and why isn't the future already there ? And why am I myself ?

I don't have answers, I only blame the many-world interpretation adepts to go straight to conclusions without addressing those deep questions, as if you could step into metaphysics starting only from a predictive mathematical model of reality.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 September 2010 05:23:49PM 0 points [-]

I don't have answers, I only blame the many-world interpretation adepts to go straight to conclusions without addressing those deep questions, as if you could step into metaphysics starting only from a predictive mathematical model of reality.

Stepping into metaphysics from a predictive mathematical model of reality sounds like a step backwards to me!

Comment author: quen_tin 23 September 2010 05:50:40PM 0 points [-]

I don't know if it is a step "backwards", as metaphysics encompass science. I would say it's a step outside. Anyway, that's what the many-world interpretation does in my opinion.