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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/de005f84-bbcd-4406-9aa4-0c09fc130955%40googlegroups.com.
