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

And we can

take that set of ideas and then say, well, if you're applying them to Everett, what do we conclude?

And the answer is we conclude that the same kind of rationales that tell us that

um tables exist and fluids exist, tell us that Schrodinger's cat exists and the live cat exists and the dead cat exists and they're separate.

So that's the one I'm doing with it.

And again, it doesn't turn on having a precise

analysis available, it turns on having a a good enough understanding of some other contexts that we can apply it in this context.

That's not to say that I think it's not an interesting question in metaphysics and philosophy of science what the actual answer is to how to think about these notions.

I have an answer to that question in much more recent work, although it's a bit indirect.

Um so the paper of mine that might be useful here is called Stating Structural Realism.

Okay,

And

The other thing about real versus exists.

So yeah, I mean I think

Mm.

I'd wanna be quite

This is quite philosophically traditional, quite minimal about this.

I mean, if I say something exists, it just means I can refer to it.

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