From the many worlds interpretation to panpsychism, theories of fundamental reality often sound absurd – but that doesn’t mean they are wrong. Here’s a few ways you can figure out how seriously to take them
ARE there vastly many near-duplicates of you reading vastly many near-duplicates of this article in vastly many parallel universes? Isa fundamental property of all matter? Could reality be a computer simulation? Reader, I can hear your groans from here in California.
We are inclined to reject ideas like these on the grounds that they sound preposterous. And yet some of the world’s leading scientists and philosophers advocate for them. Why? And how should you, assuming you aren’t an expert, react to these sorts of hypotheses?Which isn’t to say that every odd hypothesis is created equal. On the contrary, some weird possibilities are worth taking more seriously than others.
The key is to become comfortable weighing competing implausibilities, something that we can all try – so long as we don’t expect to all arrive at the same conclusions. Let us start by clarifying that we are talking here about questions monstrously large and formidable: the foundations of reality and the basis of our understanding of those foundations.
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