BTW, this is not something I “believe”, but rather something that Spekkens and Harrigan have proved.

Do you still believe that PBR directly implies non-locality, without Bell’s as I think you argued in a section of Quantum Times article?

“It (PBR) provides a simple proof of many other known theorems, and it supercharges the EPR argument, converting it into a rigorous proof of nonlocality that has the same status as Bell’s theorem. ”

Thanks.

On the argument in “Skincares parity”‘s comment, however, future and past doesn’t necessarily correlate with empirical verification of models (to remove the word “prediction”, which suggests such a correlation is necessary). Taking prediction to be more valuable than verification is just experimentalists’ way of preferring some level of blindness.

I don’t have access to the experimental evidence that Everyone is Paul! Paul needs to get several computers, e-mail addresses, and/or establish a few proxies if he (wolf? grandma?) wants to deceive, although Matt’s responses are laudably engaged with the ideas in the comments, crazy or not, IMO. I had just been thinking that the names in this comment thread were approaching meltdown.

WordPress is smart enough to know that all these people are you.

I think that retrocausality only makes sense in a “block universe” approach, in which X exists regardless of whether it is in the past or the future. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)