Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread vznuri
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 ap

Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread Hal Finney
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" > o

wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread vznuri
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