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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

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

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How You Do Science Will Be Affected by the Reasonability of the Cosmological Multi Verse

Whether or not you think the cosmological multi verse is a promising theory, absolutely indisputably affects what kind of theoretical ideas you will consider and put forward. So how you do science is affected by whether or not you take this particular theory seriously. If you don't believe many worlds, many worlds just comes out of thinking that there's a wave function or a quantum state that obeys the schwertenger equation. You need to tell me either what there is in addition to the wave function, or why and how the wave function doesn't obey the schertenger equation. That's extra work you got to do. And finally, likewise, for the fluctuating cosmology

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