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The more I think about it the more certain I am that many unsolved problems, not just anthropics, are due to the deep-rooted habit of a view-from-nowhere reasoning. Recognizing perspective as a fundamental part of logic would be the way out.
Problems such as anthropics, interpretive challenges of quantum mechanics, CDT's problem of non-self-analyzing, how agency and free will coexist with physics, Russel's paradox and Godel's incomplete theorem etc
Maybe I am the man with a hammer looking for nails. Yet deep down I have to be honest to myself and say I don't think that's the case.
I agree that there are multiple interpretative challenges around agency that have a common root. However, I think decision theories and free will are distinct from Russel's paradox and mathematical consistency problems. I think PBR helps with the first but not with the second. At some level, there is a commonality to all "problems" in and with symbolic reasoning. But I think PBR will not help with it as it is itself symbolic.
If we completely embrace this view, will it end in solipsism?
The whole idea of the world existing without us is based on view-from-nowhere reasoning.