David Wallace

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · David Wallace: Why Many Worlds Is the Only Consistent Interpretation · 29 May 2025 podcast

or committing ourselves to these very

specific and slightly procrastinate.

ways of reconciling macro and micro, the things like these specific kind of miriological sum or composition relations, if you like, is a patterning, is a much more flexible and open

relation between theories than is composed of.

So it's one way of seeing where it comes from.

Hm.

Good.

I mean when you do those in reverse order, um, Dennett doesn't offer a precise definition of pattern.

And I think he doesn't on the grounds that he thinks our understanding of these ideas in practice from just looking at what we do in science is

more reliable than trying to develop a detailed metaphysical account of it and respond to counterexamples.

I think I think he was concerned, probably not without reason, that if he tried to do it that way, which is like sort of metaphysics best practice, then he'd spend the rest of his life defending

um the metaphysical structure of this idea and he didn't want to do that.

He wanted to use that idea in the things he really cared about, which is um making sense of the mind body problem.

And somewhat similar for me, I mean, I use real pattern ideas, um

in making sense of Everettan ontology.

But I don't really argue for those ideas a priori.

I just say, look, we have a whole bunch of examples of how emergence in fact happens in physics.

We can extract some common features of that, and we can label that under Dennett's notion of a real pattern.

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