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Comment author: shminux 20 September 2013 04:00:43AM 0 points [-]

I would be happy if he did not claim that a specific model is the reality.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 20 September 2013 12:53:47PM *  0 points [-]

That's a different point you raised elsewhere, yes. I meant on the point you raised above.

Would you be satisfied on this other front if he restricted himself to saying that whatever it ends up being, it's not going to be an objective collapse theory? A distressingly large number of people haven't gotten that memo.

Comment author: shminux 20 September 2013 02:53:00PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I don't disagree that claiming that some form of objective collapse is the "reality" is not very smart. While QM can be simulated this way, and usually is, there is no reason to expect that this ad hoc rule is as deep as it gets. Unless we are in a poorly written simulation.