What quantum theory seems to insist is that at the fundamental level the world cannot supply clear ‘yes/no’ empirical answers to all the questions that seem at face value as though they should have one. The calm acceptance of that fact by the Copenhagen Interpretation seems to some, and with good reason, to be far too unsatisfactory and complacent. The MWI is an exuberant attempt to rescue the ‘yes/no’, albeit at the cost of admitting both of them at once. That this results in an inchoate view of macroscopic reality suggests we really can’t make our macroscopic instincts the arbiter of the
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