I read the book, it was interesting, however a few points.
Rather than making the case, it was more a plea for someone else to make the case. It didn’t replace the conventional theory with its own one, it was far too short and lacking on specifics for that. If you throw away everything, you then need to recreate all our knowledge from your starting point and also explain how what we have still works so well.
He was selective about quantum physics—e.g. if reality is only there when you observe, then the last thing you would expect is a quantum computer to exist and have the power to do things outside what is possible with conventional computers. MWI predicts this much better if you can correlate an almost infinite amt of world lines to do your computation for you. Superposition/entanglement should just be lack of knowledge rather than part of an awesome computation system.
He claims that consciousness is fundamental, but then assumes Maths is also. So which is fundamental? You cant have both.
If we take his viewpoint then we can still derive principles, such as the small/many determine the big. e.g. if you get the small wrong (chemical imbalance in the brain) then the big (macro behavior) is wrong. It doesn’t go the other way—you can’t IQ away your Alzheimer’s. So its just not clear even if you try to fully accept his point of view what how you should even take things.
I read the book, it was interesting, however a few points.
Rather than making the case, it was more a plea for someone else to make the case. It didn’t replace the conventional theory with its own one, it was far too short and lacking on specifics for that. If you throw away everything, you then need to recreate all our knowledge from your starting point and also explain how what we have still works so well.
He was selective about quantum physics—e.g. if reality is only there when you observe, then the last thing you would expect is a quantum computer to exist and have the power to do things outside what is possible with conventional computers. MWI predicts this much better if you can correlate an almost infinite amt of world lines to do your computation for you. Superposition/entanglement should just be lack of knowledge rather than part of an awesome computation system.
He claims that consciousness is fundamental, but then assumes Maths is also. So which is fundamental? You cant have both.
If we take his viewpoint then we can still derive principles, such as the small/many determine the big. e.g. if you get the small wrong (chemical imbalance in the brain) then the big (macro behavior) is wrong. It doesn’t go the other way—you can’t IQ away your Alzheimer’s. So its just not clear even if you try to fully accept his point of view what how you should even take things.