If there is spatial locality, then you're going to be able to chop up your wave function into different subsets that interact with their nearest neighbors. And so that's a technical exercise to go through to make that happen. To me, it's always felt like it's just the repackaging of good old anthropocentrism and teleology ... It's sneaking God in back again," he says.
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