On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:04 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 12:54:42 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 9/6/2019 10:21 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> Sean Carroll is on a nationwide speaking tour now evangelizing Many >> Worlds. >> >> What is the predictive power of Many Worlds? >> >> >> None, unless someone can figure out how to derive Born's rule from >> it...which I think is impossible. But it does go a way toward making the >> story of measurement more consistent. >> >> Brent >> > > > Maybe. But the wider point is Sean Carroll's unlinking (strict) > observability from science. > > > https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2018/01/17/beyond-falsifiability/ > > (which many have exploded over). > > In Sean's world, if a vocabulary of unobservables fits into a scientific > fabric somehow, then it's tenable. Maybe that's OK. Who knows. > I do, And I can confidently tell you that it is all a load of foeted dingo kidneys. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLRdi4PecDw%2BdCkgHs8rZ4YTUF-US6F3Q8HgEV4rH_mj0w%40mail.gmail.com.

