On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 3:48:16 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 7/19/2019 12:33 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > "I’m happy to be described as a monist. There aren’t multiple different > kinds of things; *there is only the wave function of the universe*. As an > emergent approximation it’s useful to characterize the wave function as > describing *multiple worlds*." > > So for Sean Carroll, reality is a mathematical entity: a wave function. > At least Thales believed in stuff (matter). > > > "Stuff" is sufficiently vague that the wave-function could qualify as > "stuff". The contentious question seems to be where conscious thoughts > fall in the ontology. Are they processes realized by stuff (Vic), or do > they exist in a separate Platonic real(Bruno), do they constitute a > separate realm(pt), do they constitute everything(Cosmin)? > > Brent >
Actually I was unfair to Sean. The "stuff" of Sean is not the wave function (a mathematical fiction), but *multiple worlds*, which it "approximates". He sometimes talks about (incorrectly) the wave function as being real (which it isn't). It's the *multiple worlds* that are the real stuff in Sean's World. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/de005f84-bbcd-4406-9aa4-0c09fc130955%40googlegroups.com.
