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 that's going to be um some some more general kind of modal constraint perhaps that selects the history.

Um and causation is something that appears at a much higher level of description and probably

Is only going to be relevant in the kinds of regimes where you have agents taking actions.

So I think it's perfectly possible to say, to say, you know, in some sort of fundamental sense, the history was already there and was selected in an all-at-on way.

But nonetheless, the agent is the cause of their action because causation is only suitable in that kind of regime of description anyway.

And so it is still true insofar as there is such a thing as causation.

it's still true that the agent is causing their actions.

I disagree most with um

Uh I think we s we s we still have um an ongoing debate about whether it's uh sort of necessary to change relational quantum mechanics in the way that we suggested.

Um so yeah, we we proposed a postulate that you can add to the theory which makes it possible for observers to communicate with each other in an absolute sense and for their perspectives to become aligned in an absolute sense.

Uh Carlo, I think, is not convinced that's necessary.

He thinks perhaps it's enough that

uh there's a sort of it's relationally true that uh within my perspective it seems as though I have access to your perspective and he thinks that might be adequate.

Uh for me I think that doesn't that doesn't solve the kinds of epistemic worries I have about the role of social inquiry in science.

So I think the absolute story is necessary, but uh this is you know this is an ongoing debate.

Oh gosh, that's an interesting question.

I actually have not thought about that.

Um seems very possible, but I would have to think more about the technical details before I could say one way or another.

So self-location uh refers to scenarios in which uh you are uncertain about your location within the universe.

Uh so uh you might be uncertain where you are or when you are, or if if you're in a multiverse, you might be uncertain about which universe within the multiverse you are currently located in.

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