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There is no stable self that is carried along from one moment to the next.

Whereas multiverse cosmology presumes the stable backdrop of an eternally inflating space in which everything happens, the no-boundary proposal holds that quantum mechanics becomes so fundamentally important in the very early universe that it washes out even that backdrop—the very fabric of spacetime.

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

Classical determinism, that is, emerges from the collective behavior of random microscopic quantum histories.

The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the term most widely preferred at present) “naturalism”; and naturalism—the doctrine that there is nothing apart from the physical order, and certainly nothing supernatural—is an incorrigibly incoherent concept,

Schrödinger’s scenario was intended to critique an interpretation of physics that held that quantum mechanics did not describe objective reality—rather, it dealt only in probability.

Even in physics, some of the most fundamental explanations, and the predictions that they make, are not reductive.

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