Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Jacob Barandes and Emily Adlam: Why Many Worlds Is Nonsensical · 25 Jun 2025 podcast

You can do what you like.

And that is a view that a lot of people really strongly resist.

I get a lot of a lot of uh push back when I present on this, um but Jacob I think immediately understood where I was coming from and had very similar views.

And so uh that is something where I think we are perhaps again

Against the the the the flow of the current overall, but but quite strongly aligned on that one.

That's true, yeah.

Yes, sure.

I mean I so s I mean one of the main things the paper is doing is making this distinction between the pure and superficial uh cases, which I mean Jacob puts it in terms of irreducible and dexicals.

I think the way I described it in the paper was in terms of whether the possible uh locations you're considering belong to the same possible world or different possible worlds.

Um so with the the waking up in the morning case, um

In every possible world there's exactly one time at which I actually wake up in the morning.

Um and so that means that at all of the different times I'm considering when I'm wondering when did what time is it, when did I wake up in the morning, those are all different possible worlds.

Whereas with the cloning kinds of cases where you're just making ten clones and you could be any of these clones, those clones all exist in the same possible world.

So that that case where they all exist in the same possible world is what I call the the pure self-locating uncertainty.

And I think that that that these types of self-locating uncertainty are often kind of treated as as the same in sort of discussions of this topic, but they are quite different because uh in the superficial case where it's different possible worlds, ultimately that's just a question about which possible world is actual.

That's the kind of question we ask in science all the time.

And we can we can address that by uh going to some scientific theory and getting probabilities from it.

Uh whereas in the cloning case, uh there's no

sort of process which picks which clone you are.

You just are whoever you are.

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