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The last part of the book (VI: Conclusions and General Perspectives) contains only one final chapter (i.e., chapter 13) that is concerned with consequences of the clustered-minds multiverse for our weltanschauung and for future research in physics and in the social sciences. This chapter does not aim at the impossible: summarizing from all the previous chapters the plethora of research opportunities that have been identified or the several consequences for our weltanschauung that arose. Instead, it focuses on some especially important and challenging new aspects in this regard (or more detailed accounts of only briefly mentioned, but rather important phenomena). It wants to be stimulating instead of suggesting any completeness. Part of those challenging thoughts are the limits put on the potential revelation of ‘truth’ in scientific research in physics and in the social sciences by the clustered-minds multiverse, the introduction of a new type of psychophysical experiments, and, quite generally, the move from a quasi-Newtonian to a multiverse worldview.
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Of course, Everett (1957) preceded decoherence (Zeh 1970). But applying decoherence within the Everett framework leads to a more parsimonious model of the appearance of a seemingly classical world.
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Simplifying, the intensity is here equated with the amount of consciousness allocated to some version of the individual.
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This example is similar to the one in Schade-Strohm (2017), patch 1: “A different history of creation,” where a ‘little entity,’ not proficient so far in creating objects in consciousness, creates a sheep-dog.
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Similar considerations are perhaps valuable for a better understanding of dreams. Freud considered dreams as being generated by the unconscious of the individual, and this is certainly true to some extent (Freud 2010 [1900]). A complimentary perspective, however, is that dreams might offer an access to parallel realities (similar thoughts can be found within different chapters in Mensky 2010).
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As in other parts of the book, applications beyond the social sciences and physics are not pursued.
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That does not mean that I am now taking any flow of time seriously. Time is one proxy for distance between realities.
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This is not to be mistaken with an acceptance by journals etc., albeit this might be part of it.
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It is crystal clear that there are many other reasons, too, as to why older results might not replicate as well as more recent ones such as changes in scientific methodology or statistics, changes in the culture of the population the respondents are taken from (this, however, being part of a mind-cluster’s setup) etc. Hence, this is no conclusive test of the multiverse-based hypothesis.
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As already stated in the last chapter, a detailed account of different epistemological positions in philosophy or a thorough analysis of different positions in the philosophy of science is not possible within the scope of this book.
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One might argue that this is not possible at all and I would have no stringent argument against that point. However, some realities might differ only smoothly from ours, and we might get a feel for the robustness of our findings via numerous replications.
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Schade, C.D. (2018). Selected Consequences of the Clustered-Minds Multiverse for Weltanschauung and Scientific Research. In: Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03583-9_13
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