(2023-09-27, 05:14 AM)Mediochre Wrote: Stuff like that is why I don't give the seth stuff the time of day. I've seen enough supposedly profound quotes from it to know that there's nothing of substance there. I'm definitely far more favorable to the idea of a multiverse for a lot of reasons. One of which being that it's extremely prominent after a certain point in my past life memory complete with a pretty extensive bunch of scientific classifications and presumed mechanisms and such that I have no way of testing but would love to. Granted, assuming the memories are real, which at this point I more or less do, I don't think I had a deep enough level of understanding of any of it and I could easily be misremembering certain aspects, which makes it hard to differentiate from the memories just not being real.
The closest I got to testing it here was with my old poltergeisting experiments. Since one of the claims is that reality is continuous and contiguous, and if true that would mean it should be possible to take a projection or OBE that was presumably on another plane of existence and cause it to sink to this one, since the two were ultimately connected, and then do physical stuff to prove it. And that happened. I now know that poltergeisting is more or less a known thing for OBE's that was even studied somewhat in regards to Alex Tanous. But that of course does not prove a multiverse.
Other reasons is that it seems to be the only way to solve the infinite regression problem that otherwise exists with a singular, constrained reality. There's no reason whatsoever that reality needs to have the rules that it has and that becomes even more puzzling if its somehow the only one. It would be an implicit claim that, somehow, for no reason, infinity was constrained to just this. But with a multiverse, depending on mechanisms for how it worked, it becomes very easy to get something specific and constrained from otherwise unconstrained infinity.
There's supposedly other, harder evidence sort of kind of that reality shifts can happen. One of the most credible stories I've heard came from a researcher who knew two people who were either part of some team of theirs or otherwise also researchers themselves or peripheral to that. They bought something from a stall in a mall that, when they went to return one of those things, found had never existed. Except they had the receipt that included the stall number, which matched the now different store that was now there, and which reportedly made the owner go white and a sheet when they read it, since it should be impossible for that to be true. I've heard other such stories of varying credibility at least in terms of how they sound, but I have no reason to doubt that some of them happen. Which points directly to a multiversal explanation if you could somehow get hard evidence of a change. I'm not sure how or if you could even do that given the nature of teh phenomena.
I think the point is that the many-worlds interpretation of QM is an all or nothing thing. If it is the valid interpretation then the whole universe splits every time a wave function is splatted anywhere in the entire universe. People don't stop and think how absurd that is.
However, maybe some splitting off of realities that exist for a while makes more sense. QM is time symmetric so if it allows for realities to fork, it must (I think) allow for them to merge back together again.
David