Ruth\'s \"real\" possibilities (General)

by rekastner , Thursday, August 01, 2013, 22:46 (4130 days ago) @ dhw

I think you're reading something pejorative into my categorization that isn't intended. All I'm saying is that the physical possibilities I'm referring to are those things that are describable by QM -- by that particular theory.-I'm not addressing other types of things, e.g., that could be mental in nature, and I'm not saying those aren't real, they are just not part of the 'actualized, physical' realm (spacetime) or of the realm described by the QM formalism.-Also, I've noted that QM seems to be telling us there are layers to reality, all of which one can think of as 'real,' but at subtler levels. One could think of the mental realm as a subtler level of the QM realm, which would mean it is more fundamental but less manifest in a physical sense. I'm not endorsing that view but it's certainly a possibility.