roundedge

Is there any reason why killing baby seals is worse than killing adult seals?

In a recent blog post you give a description of work you recently published regarding inflation and the interpretation of quantum fluctuations:

Our approach shows that the conventional understanding of inflationary perturbations gets the right answer, although the perturbations aren’t due to “fluctuations”; they’re due to an effective measurement of the quantum state of the inflaton field when the universe reheats at the end of inflation.

If I understand correctly, the salient feature is that quantum fluctuations are not dynamical, but rather manifestations of quantum mechanical wave function collapse. And that this means only universes which will eventually possess observers will be subject to these fluctuations.

Would you consider it unreasonable to characterize this type of explanation as a departure from causal explanations of reality? That is, given that the behaviour of the system is in some sense governed by its future potential, would this not constitute a dialectical or teleological explanation of reality?

Thanks!