The Life of Psi: More on the Superposition Principle

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The Arrow of Time

In the fourth lecture, Harvey Brown asks why real-world events always proceed in the direction of increasing entropy, even though the laws of physics don’t require it. 

The Probability Puzzle

In the third lecture, David Wallace asks how we make sense of probability in the Many-Worlds theory. 

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