Bill, I love these high-quality questions that we get, and we have a few here that we

like to get you to address.

First one here from the United States, Seth says,

Dear Dr. Craig, the concept of the multiverse is something that is familiar with part of our

culture now.

This year has seen two very popular movies, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,

and everything everywhere all at once.

Those two movies gross big box office and receive favorable views.

They both have as their concept that a person has many different versions of themselves

that have superficial changes throughout the multiverse.

For example, it is me, but with a different job or a different appearance.

Now, while this is a popular level understanding of a scientific concept, it still feels like

it points to something missing in my or our understanding of the multiverse.

If some core of myself is the same, but has different changes made to it, then what

does self mean?

I find it interesting that a time travel movie will come out and people will have long discussions

about the internal logic, but people take the idea of self at face value.

Is there current modern work on the self right now?

Can materialist even talk about a self?

I think these are excellent questions from Seth, and it is, I think, vitally important

that we understand that in this supposed multiverse of worlds, that the counterparts

that resemble you in these other worlds are not you.

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