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>From: brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: QM nonsense
Message-ID: <1992Feb27.024210.203@norton.com>
Date: 27 Feb 92 02:42:10 GMT
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Organization: Symantec / Peter Norton
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weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> In article <1992Feb25.111705.24619@norton.com>, brian@norton (Brian Yoder) writes:
> >And more of this "multiple reality" stuff.  How can you utter such things 
> >with a straight face?
 
> I can utter this and other such things with a straight face because they
> are code words for various mathematical manipulations.  If you want to
> try to understand them, skip their surface meanings and get down to the
> real physics.

I am certainly willing to get down into the physics and the mathematics, but 
I have heard a great many explanations of this "code word" that involved
metaphysically multiple realities and what I understand of the more technical
descriptions of the theory that really IS what it is trying to say, no?

Do you agree that the referent of this "code word" is the idea that there are
multiple real facts which contradict?  At the same time and in the same respect?
If so, then you have discovered a contradiction and as a scientist you are 
obliged to throw your theory out (or improve it to eliminate the contradiction).
If you don't you are no longer applying science.

--Brian
 
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