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Ep: 89 ”Quantum Information” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can & Can‘t” Ch 4 readings and discussion

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Physicists Like Kiara Don't Even Talk About the Multiverse

David Wheeler: We need to demystify all areas of science that we possibly can in particular quantum theory because it's been mired in this bad philosophy. Kiara is not actually going to even mention the multiverse in this chapter, she doesn't even mention it in the entire book except in the acknowledgments he says. He thinks her use an important heuristic from David Deutsch many years ago about taking for granted what quantum physics is saying about reality namely the multiverse. "So long as they revel in the mystery people will keep looking at them as kind of like gurus" writes Wheeler.

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