This is a link post for https://viderationale.blog/2024/05/04/quantum-path-to-the-multiverse/ Much of the arguments here comes from David Deutsch's two books The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality. I try to explain parts of it in more detail and hopefully they make sense. Central claim is that the problems posed by...
There comes a time in the life of a student of philosophy when they start thinking facts aren’t important. What starts off as a passion to stamp out falsehoods and replace them with truths, morphs into an acute uninterest, and eventually disdain towards facts. I have suffered from this mental...
This is a link post for https://viderationale.blog/2024/05/04/quantum-path-to-the-multiverse/
Much of the arguments here comes from David Deutsch's two books The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality. I try to explain parts of it in more detail and hopefully they make sense.
Central claim is that the problems posed by the Copenhagen Interpretation, crisply laid out in the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment, disappear if you view it through the lens of David Deutsch's modification of Everettian Quantum Mechanics. It explains wave-particle duality, interference phenomenon, and probabilistic outcomes of measurement, all completely physically.
There comes a time in the life of a student of philosophy when they start thinking facts aren’t important. What starts off as a passion to stamp out falsehoods and replace them with truths, morphs into an acute uninterest, and eventually disdain towards facts. I have suffered from this mental disorder for a long time, but have recently gotten cured. So here I am, standing on the other side, healthier and wiser, and preparing to persuade you.
Philosophy is a study of certain kinds of general ideas that are abstracted from particular details. So we talk about morality as a general principle, instead of focusing on real-life, on-the-ground policies. Making correct assessments about... (read 692 more words →)