Yes, I do offer specifics about TI and reality (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 20:01 (3938 days ago) @ rekastner

rekastner: dhw, if you read my published peer-reviewed work on TI you will see that I address quite specifically these questions of what is real and what kind of reality we're dealing with here. Of course I can't address these issues in detail in an 800-word blog post. That was just an introduction to the basic transactional picture. I can understand general discouragement regarding the failure of many QM interpretations to deal satisfactorily with these questions, but I hope you won't adopt a judgment that this approach must also be a failure without having read the work first. I do offer some very specific proposals about what I think QM tells us about reality. -More info on TI and my development of it, and implications for reality, are on my website and in my book (link for 20% off book on my site). -transactionalinterpretation.org
 
www.cambridge.org/9780521764155[/color]-I have only just logged onto this (I live in the UK, and am always miles behind everyone else!). First of all, welcome to the forum, and many thanks for tackling my layman's questions head on. I see there are various writings and talks one can log onto from your website, and I'll try to read some of these in the next few days. I shall have to ask for patience as regards my reading time and my ignorance. Yours is a field I am particularly ignorant of, but I will ask my questions all the same, as that is the only way to learn! -Perhaps to be getting on with, I could ask you for an explanation of the term "transactions", as in [quantum mechanical entities] "become actualized within the spacetime manifold via transactions". It may be that you explain this in your book, or such terms are obvious to people in your field, but I'm sure I'm not the only person on this forum who needs help! Once again, thank you for joining us.