{"id":236603,"date":"2026-05-06T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:02:39","slug":"many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality","title":{"rendered":"Many minds, not many worlds, constitute quantum reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/many-minds-not-many-worlds-constitute-quantum-reality.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, many are still puzzled by the idea that Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat is simultaneously alive and dead. The mystery drives some of our most prominent physicists to embrace the bizarre idea that reality constantly splits into a near infinity of parallel worlds, of which ours is just one. Philosopher of physics Nadia Blackshaw argues that this \u201cmany worlds\u201d interpretation goes wrong not only in its extravagant multiplying of entities, but in its attempt to adopt a \u201cview from nowhere,\u201d describing reality from no particular perspective. She proposes instead a \u201cmany minds\u201d interpretation, in which the cat is alive from one perspective and dead from another. It\u2019s time physics took conscious perspectives seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, many are still puzzled by the idea that Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat is simultaneously alive and dead. The mystery drives some of our most prominent physicists to embrace the bizarre idea that reality constantly splits into a near infinity of parallel worlds, of which ours is just one. Philosopher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}