Well said.. Especially in regards to this particular piece, Erich Joos (the author of the paper regarding QZE) hasn’t come very far since his work 20 years ago. Sure, it’s hard to cover much ground under the shadow of this theory, but when you consider all the technological advancement we’ve made, you’d certainly expect to see our understanding also progressing to some extent rather than stagnating under its own inapplicability.

I do remain more optimistic — the whole multiverse/multiworlds direction (which has become trendy enough to get me writing about it like a fool who thinks he knows what he’s talking about) is at least an attempt to think on a bigger scale, fruitless as it may be. Hopefully it’s a stepping stone, likened to how we used to think that electricity only emanated from animals before we discovered that it’s actually a force in itself.

I think you’re right — physics and the collective aspirations of science remains transfixed on its past success rather than properly oriented in a future direction.

We may see a sharp pivot from our collective interest in untestable theories towards something more immediately gratifying — technology. But can this stifle our progression? If we’re no longer motivated to pursue that which we can’t seemingly know, I feel like we’d implode under the weight of our own surrendering of curiosity.

Luckily tech bleeds enough into the external discoveries of reality (i.e. in space or in quantum applications) that it can be reconciled with some grace..

Last Q for you John: I find there to be a rather interesting common denominator amongst many big thinkers throughout history and even into modernity: either optimism about our transcendence towards eternalizing our existence or our inevitable fall into oblivion. Do you think we’re doomed to experience some measure of apocalyptic happenstance or are we able to escape this, be it digitally or physically (space)? Unrelated but I figured to ask, not sure why.. maybe because it signifies that we’re on the right or wrong course, that we ought/ought not have faith in our future selves.