Quantum Monism

I have always been a bit disturbed by the many worlds view of parallel universes.  I could not make any sense of it and it offended my reasoning as to how the universe operates.  Upon reading an article in "Scientific American", a missing piece of information fell into place and suddenly the universe was whole again.

"Both quantum monism and Everett’s many worlds are predictions of quantum mechanics taken seriously. What distinguishes these views is only the perspective: What looks like "many worlds" from the perspective of a local observer is indeed a single, unique universe from a global perspective (such as that of someone who would be able to look from outside onto the entire universe).

In other words: many worlds is how quantum monism looks like for an observer who has only limited information about the universe. In fact, Everett’s original motivation was to develop a quantum description of the entire universe in terms of a "universal wave function.” It is as if you look out through a muntin window: Nature looks divided into separate pieces but this is an artifact of your perspective."

You can read the entire article here:

Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics