Multitudes: Taking Quantum Mechanics Literally
Take the quantum equations at face value, refuse the collapse, and you are a branching many the math weighs but never values. On what that leaves of the self.
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Take the quantum equations at face value, refuse the collapse, and you are a branching many the math weighs but never values. On what that leaves of the self.
You think the coin under the cup is already heads or tails. It isn't. You think you are one person, a single thread running through time. You aren't. Take quantum mechanics literally and decline to add the one thing the equations never contained, a …
Time does not flow. The present is not special. The future is not open. This follows from three confirmed facts by arguments you can draw with a diagram, and it changes what you are.
You think time flows. It doesn't. You think the present is special. It isn't. You think the future is open, carved from a space of possibilities. It isn't. This follows from three experimentally confirmed facts, the constancy of the speed of light, …
Physics-dense exploration of posthuman intelligence.