Jacob Barandes
speaker
7,673 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Uh but they're all connected to each other.
They're not really separate worlds in a fundamental sense.
There's just one world in this picture, one actual world, there's one universal wave function.
And it's just convenient for humans to think of this in this sort of branched way to make sense of this reality.
So which branch you're on is not a question of which possible world you're in.
It's, as Emily put it, a question of where you are in this single possible world.
And so it becomes a question of pure self-looking uncertainty in Emily's language.
It's just that we use these words like worlds in so many different ways, and it's very easy to get confused about their different meanings.
The last thing I'll just say is when people first approach a multiverse theory, whether it's a cosmic multiverse, an actually big, big space-time with lots of regions, maybe it's so big that Earth has occurred many times with people on it like us, or maybe you're talking about a multiverse in the sense of a branching Everettian multiverse.
Reverse.
I think we all have this intuition.
Maybe we don't state it.
Emily puts it,
We think we have a kind of Cartesian ego.
There's a kind of
Essence that it is to be this particular Jacob Barandess, or that particular Emily Adlam, or that particular Kurt J.
Mungle.
Uh and
That essence is
Is like a karaoke ball.
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