wheeler walked away from MWI

hi all. I just read an amazing factoid in john gribbins search for sch.cat. it says that wheeler, in spite of his initial enthusiasm for MWI promoting it, and being the advisor to everett, eventually abandoned it, feeling it carried too much metaphysical baggage or something like that. I was not

Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

VZ Nuri writes: hi all. I just read an amazing factoid in john gribbins search for sch.cat. it says that wheeler, in spite of his initial enthusiasm for MWI promoting it, and being the advisor to everett, eventually abandoned it, feeling it carried too much metaphysical baggage or

Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

ok thanks HF for the clarification. I didnt realize all the recent threads on tegmark were also referring to a tegmark-wheeler article. fyi, here is the quote from gribbin. I havent noticed, but is everyone aware of this book? good stuff.. from 1984, a bit dated, but it keeps getting reprinted