Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Deutsch: uncertainty
2 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
“Of course, we don’t know for sure what they are, but our best theories — in particular, quantum theory — say that there are other such entities and how they affect ours and how matter behaves as a result of that.”
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- David Deutsch
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- uncertainty
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- 2 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Sure. There’s no such thing as the laws of physics for our universe. There’s just the laws of physics. Of course, we don’t know for sure what they are, but our best theories — in particular, quantum theory — say that there are other such entities and how they affect ours and how matter behaves as a result of that. Of course, it might be overturned one day, quantum theory, just like all our scientific theories, maybe. This is, again, maybe a question that you would consider a category error coming from commonsense realism. How should I think about splitting universes in a manner consistent with the conservation of matter and energy? Because there seems to be a multiplication.…
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