My view are somewhat similar to [1]Arthur n the first two paragraphs. I do not generally make up my mind until I must and even then, I change freely when necessary: [although to be more clear: "must" and "necessary" _should_ jump out at you for what they really are: Wish. Want. Feel like it. They are not MUSTs. They are not NECESSARY. Not SHOULD or OUGHT, although they COULD have parts of MUST, NECESSARY, SHOULD AND OUGHT within it but rarely exclusively] I reserve my frustrations with myself for I wish to have perfect answers instantly available for any given situation that will instantly resolve all doubt among myself and anybody who happens to be within ear - or eye - shot. (as I'm usually online). I do not always have that ability, so that is where my frustration lies. I do not place it on other people. They have their own journeys to take. Is the cat on the outskirts of the reality? Perhaps. But I tend to believe the cat is on the inskirts of reality. Close than the underpants. Within the nervous system of the contemplating individual. Things are. But our abilities to determine "What is" "isn't" "might" are easily led and misled by logic. Evidence. Analogy. Numbers. Metaphor. All can lead and deceive because facts are TRANSMITTED things. Who is transmitting? Why are they transmitting? Are they trustworthy? Discernment, unfortunately, is no easy matter. Your smarter neighbor sometimes can't help you much. A committee of elders sometimes can't help you much. You can't always help yourself much. Your computer can't always help you. You remember: "Garbage In, Garbage Out?" GIGO. That's that they shoved in us (metaphorically) in computer classes in the 1980s. GIGO. A computer gives answers only as good as the data going in. You can have a perfectly running program. All the logic works. It compiles. It runs! Hand-picked answers that always work will always work. Normal cases will work and will always work. But garbage can also go through the perfect logic as long as it is well-formatted garbage and what comes out is still garbage. Logically processable garbage, but still garbage. Now [2]Peter Stanbury - I'm not saying [x] is good data or garbage. I don't know. Not all information is life or death. Think of eating: Most of what we eat is garbage. It turns into shit. Yet within that garbage is something good. Our body uses what it can. SOME food (information) is Doritos. Snack food. Popcorn. Nuts. Candy. Salty. Sweet. Fun. If [x] is something that goes through the logic circuits and outputs a pleasing result and it turns out to be snack food that you LIKE? You're not actually POISONING anybody with it or yourself? Then eat it. It's not garbage. This is where GIGO isn't always correct. Maybe a variation of FIFO: Fun In, Fun Out. [not First in first out - that's another thing] Beliefs in possibilities that may or may not ever be proven is part of the fun in theoretical physics and areas that can't seem to fully be proven either way. Stuff in the awkward or fantastical zone. Now, I happen to think a lot that's come out of theoretical physics is candy. Fun. Salty sweet snacks that are delicious on the tongue and fun for the brain to ponder and enjoy. Yet, they don't hold much practical value. They're fun. Practical theoretical physics is Standard Model. We have all the answers we need for the moment to make real stuff work and happen with engineering and chemistry. Multiple Universe don't help build quantum computers but they COULD work mathematically within the quantum computers to allow for seeing possibilities that we wouldn't see otherwise had we progressed purely constructivist and not using statistical probabilities. By a similar token, bunk or debunk, myth or true, there are certain curiosities that may or may not be true and they are fun. They also hold practical value as they give our imagination expansion room for possibilities in areas that purely constructivist does not allow for on its own. So if [x] gives your brain expansion room into the Unknown and curious and it isn't harming anybody by such things, consider it your "Possibilities Space". None, All or Some _could_ be true but the truth values are less important than the extra dimension they give you to work with, whether a literal extra dimension or a figurative extra dimension. More room. Another piece of paper to draw on that you don't have to hand in at the end of the class. Doodle room. Sorry for nothing more conclusive than but we've left conclusive-land and we've moved into possibilities-land where things remain continually unsteady and uncertain. That's part of their charm. References Visible links 1. https://www.facebook.com/arty.drum.3?hc_location=ufi 2. https://www.facebook.com/peter.stanbury.14?hc_location=ufi