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Ep 185: Possibility and Actuality. Facts and Counterfactuals.

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The Place of Possibility in a Reality Governed by Quantum Theory

According to quantum mechanics, the most vanilla version with no added assumptions about collapse or whatever. According to this theory, if you like me, then in most of the time you choose tea. And when that choice is offered to you, you know, tea or coffee, you go, I'd rather have tea. The whole of physical reality really does partition itself into what we call measures. Or we might say actualized in their lives what the laws of physics permit,. But there is a caveat here, and let me go through this.

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