The very notion of “you and me” is an appeal to realism: without an external world, there is only me — “you” become a figment of my imagination. Realism explai

The very notion of “you and me” is an appeal to realism: without an external world, there is only me — “you” become a figment of my imagination. Realism explains why my paper a) arrives while I’m asleep and b) sometimes surprises me with the content or by not arriving. I’ve yet to see a non-realist explanation of my paper that doesn’t seem deeply more convoluted than “someone like me, but not me dropped it off independent of my awareness”. I’m not saying you can’t make a model out of that, but you quickly arrive at the equivalent of epicycles to explain even basic things like my newspaper arriving (or not). Also, “quantum indeterminacy” is an assumption, not a proven fact supported by evidence. That’s the exact thing under discussion now: it’s justification as an interpretative assumption.