David Wallace
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uh scientific inference to models quared amplitude, then logically you're gonna have to say something about scientific inference.
So if you look at what I do say about scientific inference, um there's sort of two classes of things I want to say.
one class of them is things that I take are constitutive in what
It is to be.
a rational agent and in particular a scientist.
Um
And those assumptions are pretty minimal.
They're basically just that one can consistently attribute to a physical system over time.
um a pattern of preferences and intentions.
Um and that that pattern is is consistently ascribed.
So I want to say, look, if if you've got some complicated biochemical system, but that claim those claims are not true of it, even in idealization
It's not meaningful to call it an agent.
So this isn't like some kind of intuition as what agents should be, it's constitutive of what.
what what it would be to be a system that i enacts a strategy over time, if you like.
And then there are modelling assumptions about how physical systems of that kind could be realized in a quantum world.
Um so for instance, I assume that any physical strategy performable by a
Um
a human or well, it doesn't mean a human, irrational agent is going to have to be continuous in
uh Hilber space measure.
And the reason for that is just going to be that it and I'm not exactly sure how you prove it, but I want to claim it's like dynamically obvious, that you will not there it will not be possible to build any structure that itself follows the unitary d unitary dynamics and instantiates the things it does in unitary records and
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