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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Probability Distribution of Everything That Ever Happens

David and I were perfectly aware that we were engaged in a little bit of self mockery when we used that term. We wrote another paper about ever-eddy and quantum mechanics in order to make fun of it, which we call the many minds that kind of quantum mechanics. And there are people who wrote papers taking it seriously because we didn't say at the beginning, this is in order to show what's wrong with many whatever quantum mechanics. But you do take the ridiculous seriously.

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