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Variants of modal realism and quantum immortality did this to me. There are some good reasons (human mind is finite, universe may be infinite or very, very, ver
by Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago
Variants of modal realism and quantum immortality did this to me. There are some good reasons (human mind is finite, universe may be infinite or very, very, very large, finite patters recur in infinity) to expect something like modal realism, Egan's Dust Theory or Everett's many worlds to be true.
These are neat ideas but not helpful for my sanity.
- wfn 11y agoI've found myself wondering at times, has there been any new development/thought put into Egan's Dust theory which you mention? As I take it a more rigorous but very close formulation is articulated in Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...)