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The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory — mentioned by andrewgleave

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:29:00 GMT

The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.02048.pdf

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The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory — mentioned by trukterious

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:35:38 GMT

Popper sounds like a dude. We shouldn't confuse this apparent irascibility with dogmatism. He was passionate about his ideas: he published them and read criticism of them. He changed his mind about the testability of evolution, and other things. Intellectual humility is not the same quality as personal meekness and geniuses have always had difficult personalities. Philosophers doubly so. How could it be otherwise? How can one create new stuff if one is too agreeable and too susceptible to groupthink? Btw, the reason falsifiability doesn't have to be falsifiable (by experiment) is that it…

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The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory — mentioned by kgwgk

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 15:47:19 GMT

> Weinberg either does not understand the multiverse theory or he intentionally misrepresents it. It is not the case that the universe splits when a measurement is made. I don’t know if your point is that the universe splits more often than that or never. Note that Weinberg is referring to the usual MWI formulations, I don’t know what is the precise definition of the “multiverse theory” you mention. And actually he says that “the fission of history would not only occur when someone measures a spin. In the realist approach the history of the world is endlessly splitting; it does so every time…

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