GrahamH wrote:

romansh wrote:Afterthought ... John's Everett was the indeterminist without a cause ... seemingly incompatible with John's Deutsch's determined explanations/knowledge.

To my recollection he did not address this contradiction.

JP presented a bowl of cherries rather than a cohesive argument.

I hung my hat on the ideas of John Conway and Simon Kochen - turtles free will all the way down. Then I showed how quantum indeterminism bubbles up to macro levels. Everett gave a beautiful description of how all theories, even well evidenced physical theories are stories we tell ourselves. Deutsch says something similar. I believe Deutsch, Conway, and Kochen all have issues with probabilistic stories. Everett's QM interpretation gives us a way to indeterministically traverse a deterministic tree of all possibilities. i.e. the cherry you pick determines what bowl your next cherry can be picked from.