Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

Uh, but I think all of them ultimately avoid this issue by moving away from a sort of naive story where there's there's a literal transaction taking place in some sort of uh

temporal process and more towards an all at once style picture where we where the whole thing is kind of atemporal and has to be thought of as being uh determined uh

in this atermodal sense that fixes its consistency.

Uh so I think ultimately resolving that kind of problem, both in the transactional interpretation and in retrocausal models more generally, does seem like it's going to push push you towards an all at once style picture.

Um, I think they are they are separate in that, you know, the indications f that the all at once model is correct.

come partly from quantum mechanics, but also from other parts of physics, from relativity and uh quantum gravity and so on.

Um and I think just just adopting an all-at-on-style model does not by itself solve the measurement problem because the measurement problem is to a large extent about how to model observers.

J just saying we're going to tell an all-at-once story doesn't answer the question of how to model observers.

Uh so I do think that it seems clear to me that the right solution to the measurement problem is going to be some all-at-on-style solution, but there are a number of different possibilities uh within that.

And so I think it's it's still for me open which is the right way to do that.

Uh, I find them incoherent.

Um, my worry about them is that you're if you're really serious about your observer centricity, that is going to lead you inevitably to a picture in which every observer kind of has their own little reality and they're not able to communicate with each other.

Uh that I think is incompatible with the practice of science.

Science is a very social activity.

Uh, the sort of objectivity of science rests on the fact that we have all these different scientists.

Just doing observations and then sharing them.

So I don't think it's it's reasonable to interpret quantum mechanics in any way which uh ultimately says we can't actually communicate with different observers.

I am however however however interested in sort of more moderate uh observer centric views which allow that observers uh play an important role or that perspectives in general play an important role, uh, but which which nonetheless make provision for sort of connections between perspectives to happen.

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