Still, take the problem of the physical world. There’s a large philosophical question of ‘what’ is actually out there; or if such a question is answerable even in principle (basically we’re talking about the thing-in-itself). A Dust multiverse sidesteps this completely- if you go down far enough, you’ll just get some mathematical laws, akin to those found in the Game of Life, which produce our universe. Isn’t that at least parsimonious?
(You still have the problem of what mathematics is fundamentally, but it’s a separate issue from the physical.)
Just lying in bed alone with nothing but my own thoughts to distract me was the problem. But darkness makes it worse. And you have to lie still to get the sleep, but if I’m having anxiety in the morning I can just get up and find something to distract me.
Meant to answer this and forgot. You’re right that distractions always help, but often I go from hopeless to completely optimistic in minutes, for no apparent reason at all. Is this a neurological phenomenon?
I get the feeling you guys should read up on timeless qm, which basically avoids all of these problems and questions by treating reality as a static ‘crystal’ of related events with no time component. If you’re going to be talking about stuff near the floor, you might as well go all the way instead of using inaccurate hacks.
Hmm, OK, my belief in DT is pretty well shaken.
Still, take the problem of the physical world. There’s a large philosophical question of ‘what’ is actually out there; or if such a question is answerable even in principle (basically we’re talking about the thing-in-itself). A Dust multiverse sidesteps this completely- if you go down far enough, you’ll just get some mathematical laws, akin to those found in the Game of Life, which produce our universe. Isn’t that at least parsimonious?
(You still have the problem of what mathematics is fundamentally, but it’s a separate issue from the physical.)
Meant to answer this and forgot. You’re right that distractions always help, but often I go from hopeless to completely optimistic in minutes, for no apparent reason at all. Is this a neurological phenomenon?
I get the feeling you guys should read up on timeless qm, which basically avoids all of these problems and questions by treating reality as a static ‘crystal’ of related events with no time component. If you’re going to be talking about stuff near the floor, you might as well go all the way instead of using inaccurate hacks.