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Well, we did hear from Ellis (no slouch) and other physicists on the subject. But your quest is a noble one. To do what Einstein couldn't do, which is...

The precise ontology of Everett's equations can of course remain a mystery. However, there are some clues as to what he might have been thinking: http...

A "potential world" (what we see in our minds as virtual action) does not entail an actual world (the MWI) solution. I read Everett's paper, and clear...

I guess determinists don't realize (because it had been determined so) how meaningless is everything that say or do. It has sunk in because the Laws o...

I hope you don't exhaust yourself in this quest. There are better things to do in life then try to make sense out of a theory that a) really has been ...

The way I view it, is that our memories persist in the fabric of the universe and these memories (call it Karma if you wish) stay with us as a transce...

Yes, they perceived in memory. Yes, this is unshared memory. Still embedded in the universe (holographic) but inaccessible to others (most of the time...

Ain't so. All modern physics and technology is based upon it ain't so. There isn't one Interpretation of any theory any where on this Earth that holds...

There are definitely different memories which define who we are. There are definitely different Minds to access these memories (consider them all shar...

Really? What kind of predictions? How we are going to feel if we drown? Or maybe the level of ecstacy if we win $100 million. Maybe we should study th...

I have no idea what he's talking about. Maybe it's overlooked because it doesn't exist. The guiding wave and the wave perturbation are real and do not...

There is no "collapse" into an infinite number of universes. It is real but still probabilistic in that some areas are more likely than others.

One only has to look at standard educational curriculums to understand how the science industry (and it is a massive one) has co-opted the entire educ...

If the twin paradox was mentioned, that is not a minor point. However. If SR was treated as simply a measurement problem, with no ontology, then indee...

I observe consciousness pretty much everywhere interacting with no clear line of demarcation.

GR's problem with time and quantum theory. If I've analyzes Ellis' new model, it can be seen that it v is much closer to Bergson and Robbins then it i...

Yes, I believe the drug and psychiatric industry would endorse this point of view. As far as I can tell, everything is wrong about everyone nowadays a...

Here is another article from physical.org that questions time as conceived of in spacetime. If one is familiar with Bergson, as Stephen Robbins is, on...

Another consequence of GR, should we believe in its ontology,c is that the experience of life is an illusion, as described in the following article. S...

I would like to add to the paper referenced in the OP, these two videos created by the author of the paper, Stephen Robbins. I believe these represent...

Yes, in this case, we have replaced a theory (Newton's) which required an unknown planet, with a theory (GR) that requires a 95% universe. I have no p...

Until they are actually observed or measured, they are just plugins to rescue a theory, just as Vulcan was created to save Newton's theory. What happe...

All I did was point out one of the consequences if the truth of General Relativity, which is that 95% if the universe becomes invisible. As noted in t...

This is actually what materialism/determinism amounts to but it is the first time I've actually heard someone describe himself/herself as irrelevant. ...

One consequence of The Theory of General Relativity being true is that 95% of our universe is invisible dark matter, and dark energy. In my view, a ra...

Really, worshipping science, is nonsense. But I realize that worshipping is part of the human psyche. As far as I can tell, it is most likely to appea...

You think one needs science to know we are breathing and we have a heart that is pumping, and that we are growing and dying? Science cannot make any p...

Really? It seems to be quite the opposite in the case of science. Tell me, can science predict what I am going to do today? That's the only thing mean...

Bohmian mechanics avoids this entirely by positing a real quantum potential and wave perturbation. MWI exists to preserve determinism, as does Relativ...

It just seems like whenever materialist/determinist theories are in trouble, science makes up invisible matter, invisible energy, and now who knows ho...

Really? Read again. i never questioned the measurements. I never questioned the evidence. But you realize of course that science is going in a complet...

Don't take it personally. Relativity shits on itself and clearly is on the way out as quantum information theories replace it and along with it, its w...

Are you saying this is theoretical or do you believe that this is what science is actually doing?

It's not free will, it is simply Will, the ability for the mind to create an impulse of movement in a particular direction. I can't believe this notio...

Theoretically it should come crashing down, in practice scientists just make up new universes or make our current universe 95% invisible. What ever ha...

Rules of logic were designed so someone can rule. I feel no such constraint. I use every faculty and tool available to me. Sometimes it is time to mov...

Your logic has become an obstruction that limits you. I don't have such an obstruction. I'm only interested in understanding by whatever means availab...

Only because that is the way you view it. I see them all as objects as real forms. No, just a different way of viewing things. A good example is this:...

The concept of God has been around for eons, and there are certainly no laws of chemistry or physics that have anything to do with human behavior.

This is as far from an issue of logic as it comes. It is a matter of whether one can conceive of a unity of forms which in themselves contain forms. T...

Precisely, it is Memory. That which the Mind remembers. Information is not information unless there is a Mind to interpret it and use it. Using implie...

As opposed to you simple minded generalizations on your post? Totally disingenuous. Flagrant biases masquerading as some neutral umpire just doing his...

No, it vigorously opposes them and invents its own mythology as place holders, the so-called Laws of Physics being the most obvious. Survival of the f...

And everyday experiences of inherited and innate characteristics and skills are not strong evidence? What alternative theory is there? That it just ha...

Yes, it is never clear. All we have are our observations, some clues, and we try to put together the pieces into some image (ontology) of nature. Thes...

My approach is to inquire into questions and not philosophers. This type of inquiry creates a very zig-zag path through many diverse aspects of life, ...

Here is evidence of the persistence if memory through duration? Skills developed over multiple life times. https://youtu.be/rsTUVk1y6ZI

Agreed. Relativity states there is no preferred frame of reference but there is! Suppose two electric switches are thrown simultaneously and poor Ted ...

Agreed. It is all real. It all exists. It all persists. The difference is how or whom can perceive it. Is it within a personal domain or a shared doma...

This is the whole point. It highlights in bold the enormous bias of science. The intention of science is to clearly externalize space and most especia...