What is typically overlooked in this picture is that Everett’s multiverse is not fundamental but rather apparent or “emergent,” as philosopher David Wallace at the University of Southern California insists.68 From a fundamental perspective, rather than splitting the universe apart, Everett’s formalism allows application of quantum mechanics to the entire universe and thereby enables entanglement to merge the universe into an all-encompassing “One.” Everett put this point straight, when asked about it in 1977 by the young French physicist Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond: “The question is one of
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