From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Let's shift outside the scope of our world to interpretations of   
   >> quantym physics, like the multiple world interpretation. In some   
   >> interpretation multiple world are infered, but they can never affect   
   >> our world, nor we them. Therefore this is pure nonsense.   
   >   
   > This fact that they cannot affect us etc does not make it nonsense.   
      
   It does... we can never know. From a point of view of understanding   
   reality it is pure nonsense unless any empirical proof can be presented.   
      
   The only purpose I see in it, is psychological, poetical and for   
   entertainment purposes. People who do not like religion, but have the   
   religious need, use these speculations as a replacement for religion,   
   deriving immortality, paradise etc. But at the end of the day, all we have   
   are equations that give us numbers. Translating those into words and ideas   
   is a grave mistake, when there's no empirical feedback loop. Yes, they can   
   be tools that enable us to make predictions in this world, but that is all   
   that matters.   
      
   > You could take the so called fine-tuning problem as evidence of multiple   
   > universes. Just as you could take the so called Goldilocks location of   
   > the earth as evidence of multiple planets, solar systems etc.   
      
   Or you could just refrain from taking a position, since there's no way to   
   empirically verify that. That means, it is nonsensical, since it won't   
   make any difference to anyone what so ever.   
      
   It could be argued that it in fact can lead to distraction and wasted   
   resources, that stops us from pursuing more pragmatic avenues of research.   
      
   The fact remains... anything that cannot be verified empirically is at   
   best, a mental model or a tool, if the tool has no consequences and serves   
   no purpose, except taking up our time, it is useless and should be   
   discarded, except of course, for entertainment purposes, or in order to   
   create a religion which mathematicians and physicists can adopt, since it   
   is more palatable than classical religion.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)