Your entire case rests upon the claim that unless physicists are making falsifiable predictions rapidly tested by experiment they are in fairy land.
Mobile robotics research to date is still largely reliant on trial-and-error procedures, rather than exploiting established theories describing robot environment interaction in a formal manner, making falsifiable predictions and allowing quantitative descriptions of a robot's behaviour.
As Mr Thaler writes of behavioural theories, they "do not make easily falsifiable predictions and the data are relatively scarce".
In this general form, the fourth-domain concept does not make any falsifiable predictions and, accordingly, is not a scientific hypothesis sensu Popper.
Chapter 2 of your book reminds us that it took 30 years of quantum entanglement (Einstein's "spooky action at a distance", proposed in 1935) before John Bell made a falsifiable prediction and another 20 before Alain Aspect tested it experimentally.
However, for a non-parsimonious scenario to be viable, it must make clear, readily falsifiable predictions.
Part of the testimony in Arkansas was designed to refute this argument, and it was shown that in fact evolution does indeed make falsifiable claims.
However, they make specific and falsifiable predictions for the differential transfer of effects that would be observed across individuals following targeted training to EFs early in development.
We can give explicit falsifiable predictions for the time sequence of activations of different brain areas for each strategy.
There is a second way in which physicists could be convinced of the existence of a multiverse, and that is if the multiverse scenario were to make a sufficient number of falsifiable predictions in our observable universe.
