[ExI] [Extropolis] Cellular automata, downward causation, and libertarian determinism

[John Clark]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM Lawrence Crowell <
goldenfieldquaternions at gmail.com> wrote:


>  > Speculations about the multiverse suffer from the problem that we will
> never observe another cosmos.
>

*Many theories make predictions that cannot be checked but I think a theory
should be judged on the predictions that can be checked not on the
predictions that cannot be. And we CAN check the 2 slit experiment and Many
Worlds is the best way I have of making sense of the strange results of
that experiment. Professor David Deutsch goes as far as saying that talking
about many worlds as just an interpretation of Quantum Mechanics "is like
talking about dinosaurs as an interpretation of the fossil record ". And
some say the Many World's idea is not falsifiable so it's not science, but
that's not true; right now experiments are underway to see if they can
detect the objective collapse of the quantum wave function, if they are
successful then Many Worlds is wrong.*


*John K Clark*
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