David Wallace

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam & David Wallace: The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

You have to do a thoroughgoing modification of the formalism

along the lines of a dynamical collapse theory or invariable theory.

That's the only way you could get around it.

Are you still confident enough of those epistemic arguments you want to say, nonetheless, what we conclude from that is that it must be that there exists some Thurgood modification of this kind?

So, I mean, let me push a little on that.

I mean, yes, obviously, as a matter of internal logic, if you have contradictory premises, then you have to reject some.

But, I mean...

I love philosophy.

Some of my best friends are philosophers.

I could get paid by my way to answer philosophy.

Does analytic philosophy really have the kind of track record to give one that level of confidence in epistemological priors?

Good.

Okay, that's reason enough.

So, sure.

So, yes, if you're inclined to think something like quantum gravity is again going to modify the core quantum formalism, then, sure, there's a natural synergy.

I can certainly see that.

I mean, and conversely, I mean...

I think string theory is very substantially our best strategy for quantum gravity at the moment.

And that's just a unitary, unmodified quantum theory.

Modulation, slight delicacies about the problem of time.

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