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Terekhovich, Vladislav. "Challenges in Constructing Scientific Metaphysics: A Case Study of the Everettian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 5 (July 2024): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2024-5-134-139.
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The article continues the debate about whether classical “pure” metaphysics can explain scientific theories or science can generate its own metaphysical concepts. Two camps have emerged in modern analytic philosophy. The “metaphysician” camp defends the metaphysics of science by arguing that the fundamental concepts of classical metaphysics can be enriched, illustrated, or justified by examples from scientific theories. The “philosophers of science” camp views this as yet another invasion of metaphysics into their scientific territory. They advocate a scientific or naturalized metaphysics that strictly corresponds to modern scientific theories. Since the concept of possible worlds is a key element of mainstream analytic metaphysics, proponents of the metaphysics of science find it natural to appeal to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory. In turn, proponents of naturalized metaphysics often use popular metaphysical systems to justify the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. I will argue that the interpretation originally proposed by H. Everett remains only one of the ontologies of quantum theory, and attempts by philosophers of science to build a metaphysical construct on its basis encounter serious difficulties.
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Arenhart, Jonas Rafael Becker. "Does weak discernibility determine metaphysics?" THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science 32, no. 1 (February 27, 2017): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.15870.
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Two entities are weakly discernible when an irreflexive and symmetric relation holds between them. That weak discernibility holds in quantum mechanics is fairly uncontroversial nowadays. The ontological consequences of weak discernibility, however, are far from clear. Part of the literature seems to imply that weak discernibility points to a definite metaphysics to quantum mechanics. In this paper we shall discuss the metaphysical contribution of weak discernibility to quantum mechanics and argue that, contrary to part of current literature, it does not provide for a fully naturalistic determination of metaphysics. Underdetermination of the metaphysics still plagues the way of the naturalist.
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Coleburt, Russell. "Quantum Metaphysics." Downside Review 105, no. 359 (April 1987): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001258068710535902.
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Barrett, Jeffrey A. "Quantum Worlds." Principia: an international journal of epistemology 20, no. 1 (September 22, 2016): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n1p45.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n1p45Because of the conceptual difficulties it faces, quantum mechanics provides a salient example of how alternative metaphysical commitments may clarify our understanding of a physical theory and the explanations it provides. Here we will consider how postulating alternative quantum worlds in the context of Hugh Everett III’s pure wave mechanics may serve to explain determinate measurement records and the standard quantum statistics. We will focus on the properties of such worlds, then briefly consider other metaphysical options available for interpreting pure wave mechanics. These reflections will serve to illustrate both the nature and the limits of naturalized metaphysics.
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Solovyev, N. A. "QUANTUM METAPHYSICS OF FREEDOM." Metaphysics, no. 4 (December 15, 2023): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2023-4-139-153.
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The article shows that the quantum paradigm makes it possible to break the deadlock of the free will problem of Laplacian determinism, since the phase trajectory of a quantum object has ramification points. The key point in the quantum approach is the introduction into consideration of the extraphysical Self, which observes the contents of consciousness, which are a reflection of the information processes occurring in the brain. At the same time, the contents of consciousness are connected both with the actual invironment and with the world of potential capabilities of a living being. It is pointed out that this connection of consciousness with the timeless world of potential possibilities of the Universe which should be considered as the Kantian region of the transcendental and the “chessboard” within which living beings make a free choice of their actions. It is shown that the quantum approach to the problem of freedom and consciousness allows us to explain the non-algorithmic nature of human thinking.
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Bondi, Damiano. "Humility and Realism in Quantum Physics and Metaphysics." Religions 15, no. 6 (May 29, 2024): 670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15060670.
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The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the main philosophical and metaphysical implications of quantum physics, especially those which concern the issues of epistemic humility and ontological realism. My thesis is that the impossibility of reaching an objective knowledge of nature does not imply the renunciation of ontological realism, but rather encourages scientists to adopt an attitude of epistemic humility. The argument firstly presents the main theories of quantum physics currently discussed, focusing on the measurement problem and its ontological implications. Afterwords, the issues of objectivity and realism are properly addressed. In the end, we discuss statistics as the new form of scientific epistemology, along with the concept of potentiality as the fundamental category of quantum metaphysics. Throughout, we establish some parallelisms between quantum physics theories and theology to show that, when human beings investigate the foundations of reality, some thought patterns, some core problems, and some possible solutions resemble one another, regardless of the specific perspective and language with which they are formulated.
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Halpin, John, and Henry Krips. "The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory." Philosophical Review 100, no. 3 (July 1991): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2185079.
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Maudlin, Tim. "The metaphysics of quantum theory." Belgrade Philosophical Annual, no. 29 (2016): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/bpa1629005m.
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Dzelajei, Basilis. "Popper’s Propensity Interpretation of Quantum Physics as a form of Modal Metaphysics." European Journal of Physical Sciences 6, no. 2 (July 10, 2023): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ejps.1528.
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With the emergence of quantum physics in the 1920s, the major philosophical question was, do the unobservables in quantum system have ontological status or are mere instruments for scientific prediction? The Copenhagen interpretation developed an instrumentalist thesis, contending that the unobservables are tools for making predictions concerning the observables. Thus, we cannot have knowledge of the quantum particles. However, Popper attempts a realist and an objective interpretation. As such, he criticizes the Copenhagen interpretation, developing the propensity view, which accords ontological status to subatomic particles. The main thrust of our argument in this paper is that by replacing probability possibilities with propensities, Popper positions himself as a proponent of the metaphysics of modality. It is then our objective to establish the parallelism between Popper’s Propensity Interpretation and Modal Metaphysics. To establish this contention we proceeded analytically: firstly by situating the seismic shift from macro to quantum physics, secondly by examining Popper’s critique of the Copenhagen Interpretation and thirdly by attempting a demonstration of the correlation between Popper’s propensity interpretation and modal metaphysics. The merit of this paper resides in its elucidation of the importance of metaphysics in science. It is a double challenge at the same time for antimetaphysical philosophy of science and for antiscientific metaphysics, to rethink the relationship between Metaphysics and science and invest in finding how both disciplines nurture each other. Finally, it is hoped that policy makers in Philosphy and science uses our findings to revamp the conceptualisation and practice of interdisciplinarity.
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Maudlin, Tim, and Elżbieta Drozdowska. "Metafizyczne implikacje fizyki kwantowej." Roczniki Filozoficzne 69, no. 4 (December 6, 2021): 407–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rf21694-19.
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Przekład na podstawie: Tim Maudlin, „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics”, w: The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, red. Michael J. Loux i Dean W. Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 461–487
Przełożony tu na język polski tekst „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics” Tima Maudlina stanowi rozdział z The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. Autor omawia w nim sześć ważnych zagadnień metafizycznych, na które fizyka kwantowa rzuca nowe światło. Każde z nich naświetla z punktu widzenia trzech podstawowych interpretacji mechaniki kwantowej: teorii kolapsu funkcji falowej (von Neumanna lub GRW), teorii zmiennych ukrytych (Bohm) i interpretacji wieloświatowej (Everett). Omówione zagadnienia to determinizm, dookreśloność wartości wielkości fizycznych, rola obserwatora, nieoznaczoność i komplementarność, logika kwantowa, a także splątanie kwantowe i nielokalność.
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Marmodoro, Anna. "Introduction: The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics." Topoi 34, no. 2 (September 4, 2015): 309–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-015-9344-1.
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Ney, Alyssa. "Finding the Metaphysics Within Quantum Mechanics." Metascience 26, no. 3 (July 25, 2017): 451–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0232-8.
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Norton, Joshua. "Incubating a future metaphysics: quantum gravity." Synthese 197, no. 5 (June 24, 2017): 1961–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1473-1.
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Olsen, Jan-Kyrre Berg. "Metaphysics and Time." Forum Philosophicum 13, no. 2 (November 1, 2008): 367–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/forphil.2008.1302.27.
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The leap from primitive to scientific time represented as the “time” in “relativity physics,” or in “thermodynamics” or perhaps in “quantum physics” or even within “statistical mechanics” is large. Large also is the conceptual difference between these various understandings of the nature of time. How are we really to understand these physical perspectives on time: As knowledge about the real nature of time represented by the objective concepts: Or as epistemological-operational abstractions that cannot avoid elevating their results to the level of full-fledged reality, to ontology?
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Solovyev, Nikita A. "Trinity Metaphysics." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 2 (2021): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-2-107-116.
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A ternary ontological model in which the living being is a triad of I – form – substrate is described. I is an intangible subject, contemplating the content of consciousness and controlling the material body, which is the unity of the form and the substrate. The contents of consciousness are connected both with the form of the body, which I contemplate in the inner “mental space” in the form of information, and with the substrate, which embodies the forms of the body and is responsible for sensations and intentions. The problem of control of the material body by the non-material self is solved under the assumption that the human brain is a quantum object. The ternary model of a living being is inscribed in an absolute ontology, in which the Absolute also has a threefold structure and is the unstitched unity of the absolute I, the absolute Form and the absolute Substrate. The Absolute creates the other world with its threefold energies, which provides the threefold structure of a living being. The created world arises from the timeless world of the potential possibilities of the Universe, which modern cosmology associates with its wave function. Created entities arise in the process of alienation from the Absolute, resulting in free will.
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Falkenburg, Brigitte. "Edgar Wind on Experiment and Metaphysics." Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 21–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtph-2020-0038.
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Abstract The paper presents a detailed interpretation of Edgar Wind’s Experiment and Metaphysics (1934), a unique work on the philosophy of physics which broke with the Neo-Kantian tradition under the influence of American pragmatism. Taking up Cassirer’s interpretation of physics, Wind develops a holistic theory of the experiment and a constructivist account of empirical facts. Based on the concept of embodiment which plays a key role in Wind’s later writings on art history, he argues, however, that the outcomes of measurements are contingent. He then proposes an anti-Kantian conception of a metaphysics of nature. For him, nature is an unknown totality which manifests itself in discrepancies between theories and experiment, and hence the theory formation of physics can increasingly approximate the structure of nature. It is shown that this view is ambiguous between a transcendental, metaphysical realism in Kant’s sense and an internal realism in Putnam’s sense. Wind’s central claim is that twentieth century physics offers new options for resolving Kant’s cosmological antinomies. In particular, he connected quantum indeterminism with the possibility of human freedom, a connection that Cassirer sharply opposed.
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Prentner, Robert. "Process Metaphysics of Consciousness." Open Philosophy 1, no. 1 (March 21, 2018): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2018-0002.
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Abstract In this article, we look at the hard problem of consciousness from the perspective of process metaphysics. We thereby identify three problematic premises of the problem that pertain to the constitution of consciousness and its causal relation to the world. We argue for the necessity of re-thinking the corresponding phenomena in terms of internally-structured processes. The hard problem would then cease to be an insurmountable obstacle to a science of consciousness. Furthermore, this line of reasoning is shown to be continuous with philosophical projects from the early 20th century that preceded the contemporary philosophy of mind. Specifically, we investigate the relationship of parts and wholes, and translate metaphysical problems of consciousness into mereological language. Despite this being a philosophical project, we frequently note and discuss links to the empirical sciences, in particular those of quantum mechanics, systems theory and the embodied cognition framework.
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Esfeld, Michael. "Quantum entanglement and a metaphysics of relations." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35, no. 4 (December 2004): 601–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.04.008.
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Sider, Ted. "3D in High-D." Journal of Philosophy 121, no. 6 (2024): 305–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2024121623.
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According to the high-dimensional approach to quantum mechanics (a.k.a. wavefunction realism), the fundamental space of our world has an unfathomably large number of dimensions. This account is empirically adequate only if the three-dimensional manifest image can somehow be recovered from high-dimensional reality. A proper understanding of inter-level metaphysics (a.k.a. metaphysical explanation, grounding, etc.) shows that the manifest image can indeed be recovered, and answers the most concerning objections to high-dimensionalism. But it also shows that high-dimensionalism has disturbing consequences about the objectivity of the manifest image.
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Svozil, Karl. "Quantum Randomness is Chimeric." Entropy 23, no. 5 (April 24, 2021): 519. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050519.
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If quantum mechanics is taken for granted, the randomness derived from it may be vacuous or even delusional, yet sufficient for many practical purposes. “Random” quantum events are intimately related to the emergence of both space-time as well as the identification of physical properties through which so-called objects are aggregated. We also present a brief review of the metaphysics of indeterminism.
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Kincanon, Eric. "Quantum Computation and Time Asymmetry." KronoScope 17, no. 2 (September 6, 2017): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341386.
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Abstract This paper considers the possibility that the world is a quantum computer. Accepting the argument that the world is a quantum computer leads to contradictions with the metaphysics of time that deny the reality of time. Further, metaphysicians who argue for the unreality of time based on physical arguments make assumptions in their models that contradict the quantum computational nature of the world and are not necessary.
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Laudisa, Federico. "The physics and metaphysics of quantum field theory." Metascience 21, no. 3 (November 30, 2011): 621–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9609-2.
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Zinkernagel, Henrik. "Some Trends in the Philosophy of Physics." THEORIA 26, no. 2 (May 19, 2011): 215–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.1853.
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A short review of some recent developments in the philosophy of physics is presented. I focus on themes which illustrate relations and points of common interest between philosophy of physics and three of its `neighboring' elds: Physics, metaphysics and general philosophy of science. The main examples discussed in these three `border areas' are (i) decoherence and the interpretation of quantum mechanics; (ii) time in physics and metaphysics; and (iii)methodological issues surrounding the multiverse idea in modern cosmology.
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De Bianchi, Silvia. "Instantaneity beyond time." Project Repository Journal 11, no. 1 (October 28, 2021): 24–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.54050/prj1117740.
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Instantaneity beyond time PROTEUS studies the main strategies devised by Western philosophy in representing time in cosmology. It aims to modify current metaphysics and its relationship with cosmology in the light of recent scientific debates in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, thereby boosting a new research field in the history and philosophy of cosmology.
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Koponen, Ismo. "Quantum physical insights of agential realism within new materialism in science education:." Nordic Studies in Science Education 20, no. 1 (April 23, 2024): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nordina.9776.
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Barad’s agential realism has recently been evoked as a theoretical viewpoint for science education and science education research in approaches that emphasize the role of materiality and matter as a key aspect of learning science. Barad’s agential realism is underpinned by their specific ways of reading quantum physics, its interpretations and, in general, contemplations of the quantum nature of existence. Agential realism is an ontological as well as an epistemological (onto-epistemological) metaphysical position that strives to dissolve the boundaries between subjects and objects, and leaves little room for traditional subject-centered epistemological views (like constructivism) of learning. A closer look is warranted at how the quantum physics underpinnings of agential realism, which are clearly very important for it, appear in its current applications in new materialism within science education research. This critical commentary claims that, in such a context, the conceptualization of learning and educational phenomena derives little if any advantage or practical utility from the quantum physics-inspired metaphysics of agential realism; only metaphorical talk remains. Consequently, we need to be aware of the limited power and plausibility of the quantum-inspired contemplations contained in agential realism if it is adopted as a theoretical viewpoint for science education and science education research.
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Lam, Vincent, and Michael Esfeld. "The Structural Metaphysics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity." Journal for General Philosophy of Science 43, no. 2 (December 2012): 243–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10838-012-9197-x.
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Towne, Edgar A. "Toward More Clarity about Coherence in Whitehead’s Metaphysics: A Proposal." Process Studies 38, no. 1 (April 1, 2009): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44799072.
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Abstract What I call ambiguities of system due to the sheer complexity of Whiteheady’s metaphysics and his analysis of process in terms of concrescence and transition threaten its coherence in terms of what we know empirically of the quantum and classical dimensions of nature. Ambiguities of equivocation pertaining to Whitehead’s use of the terms "contemporary" and "objectification," as the latter is employed in to prehension and satisfaction, also threaten its coherence. The article proposes ways to reduce these threats and uncertainty about coherence by clarifying ambiguities and by attending to the way Whitehead’s terms are predicated on the quantum and classical dimensions.
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Bruno Riccardi. "The conception of consciousness from Metaphysics to Quantum Biology: Critical review." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 15, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 315–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2022.15.3.0943.
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The definition of consciousness and its essential characterizations, has been known over the centuries different interpretations, with different approaches and points of view, philosophical, neurological, psychological, biological and quantum. Since none of the successive interpretations in previous years it is still satisfactory and conclusive, the research continues towards more daring and abstract theoretical proposals. In this article I am going to try to collect some of the various lines of research, exemplifying current trends, in the specialized literature on the subject. The different articles are grouped according to the conceptions and theories that unite them, and are critically examined by showing the inconsistencies within each of them and the antithetical logical conflicts that exclude them from each other, leaving the original enigma still unsolved: what is conscience? I have devoted a more in-depth examination of quantum theory and quantum biology on this topic, highlighting the inconsistency of fundamental assumptions, compared to the consolidated knowledge of fundamental neurobiological structures and functions.
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Kholod, Oleksandr. "QUANTUM JOURNALISM: PROLEGOMEN OF MEASUREMENT (identification of criteria for the formation of representation about the unit of analysis and the unit of measurement)." Social Communications: Theory and Practice 13, no. 2 (January 25, 2022): 48–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.51423/2524-0471-2021-13-2-1.
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The article aimed to search for and identify the criteria for forming an idea of the unit of analysis and the unit of measurement in quantum journalism (Kyushu).The research methodology involved the use of methods of three groups: general philosophical (the method of quantum monism; the ideas of realism; the concept of Unity); scientific-practical methods –observation, description and measurement; scientific theoretical methods –formalization, axiomatization, analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, generalization, analogy, and abstraction.Results. Since today in the philosophical fields (metaphysics, nonclassical physics (quantum), and classical physics) there are no units of analysis and measurement of synergetic processes and phenomena in quantum journalism (quantum communication), further within holism and the author's concept of Unity it is proposed to create a new "1 hall", or "one holism". The range of analysis and measurement that form the unit "1 hall" should be considered the manifestations of the impact on the environment of a portion of energy (quantum) in the form of intensity and strength of changes that such energy (quantum) causes information flow.Conclusions. According to the results of the analytical review of existing ideas on measurement, it is appropriate to state ambivalent tendencies to identify the criteria for forming an idea of the unit of analysis and the unit of measurement in quantum journalism (more broadly -in the theory of quantum communication). On the one hand, measurement in quantum journalism is inexpedient. On the other hand, such a measurement is possible. From the standpoint of materialism, measurement in quantum journalism is possible thanks to digital indicators. From the point of view of metaphysics, measurement is possible taking into account the synergetic unity as a result of the combination of synergetic-convergent and cross-transmedia characteristics of information processes due to the unit "hall" (holism).Key words: quantum journalism, kyuzhur, measurement, unit of analysis, unit of measurement, identification of criteria.
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Germine, Mark. "God, Mind, Evolution, and Quantum Reality Based on Process Metaphysics." Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 8, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 49–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.12726/tjp.16.4.
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The genesis of actuality from potentiality, with the apparent role of the observer, is an important and unsolved problem which essentially defines science‟s view of reality in a variety of contexts. Observation then becomes lawful and not emergent. Panentheism is needed to provide a mechanism for order outside of blind efficient causality, in a Universal final causality. Classical physics is over a hundred years out of date, yet scientific models remain mechanistic and deterministic. Deism, a remnant of classical cosmology, is examined and rejected by scientists and philosophers, and certain pre-scientific notions of religion are scorned, putting the matter to rest. Quantum physics, in its basic form, is necessary if there is to be any philosophical or scientific notion of free will and self-determination, as potentiality. Quantum metaphysics is also needed because classical physics is fundamentally limited to localized external relations, lacking the internality and non-locality of relatedness. God, or the equivalent, is necessary to complete the equation. Physicists now tell us that reality is fundamentally mental and is created by observation. Observation is here taken to mean experience, with experience going all the way down to the lowest order of a Universal mentality.
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French, Steven, and James Ladyman. "Remodelling Structural Realism: Quantum Physics and the Metaphysics of Structure." Synthese 136, no. 1 (July 2003): 31–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1024156116636.
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Wallace, David. "Lessons from realistic physics for the metaphysics of quantum theory." Synthese 197, no. 10 (February 5, 2018): 4303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1706-y.
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Golovko, N. V. "Quantum Entanglement, Metaphysics of Relations, Dispositionalism and Е. J. Lowe's Ontology." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 19, no. 2 (October 21, 2021): 8–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2021-19-2-8-35.
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The paper aims to make а fair supplement to the concept of "metaphysics of relations" (bу М. Esfeld) with а coгrect coгresponding interpretation of the dispositional natшe of characteristics within Е. J. Lowe's ontology. А reasoning from science to philosophy leads М. Esfeld to the conclusion that "quantum entanglement understood in terms of non-separability of states speaks for the metaphysics of relations that denies the presence of intrinsic characteristics of the related systems". The same naturalistic argument provides rationale for the Е. J. Lowe's claim that "the attribution of а characteristics to а given kind could bе metaphysically contingent" for "the laws of nature can bе exactly what they are revealed to us, only because there are no other substantial kinds that could instantiate objects". As а heuristics for the intentional interpretation ofE. J. Lowe's dispositionalism we deal with the requirements of "time-relativeness" and "relevance to causality" from W. Malzkorn's list of criteria of satisfactory representation of dispositions.
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Le Bihan, Baptiste. "Space Emergence in Contemporary Physics: Why We Do Not Need Fundamentality, Layers of Reality and Emergence." Disputatio 10, no. 49 (November 1, 2018): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0004.
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Abstract ‘Space does not exist fundamentally: it emerges from a more fundamental non-spatial structure.’ This intriguing claim appears in various research programs in contemporary physics. Philosophers of physics tend to believe that this claim entails either that spacetime does not exist, or that it is derivatively real. In this article, I introduce and defend a third metaphysical interpretation of the claim: reductionism about space. I argue that, as a result, there is no need to subscribe to fundamentality, layers of reality and emergence in order to analyse the constitution of space by non-spatial entities. It follows that space constitution, if borne out, does not provide empirical evidence in favour of a stratified, Aristotelian in spirit, metaphysics. The view will be described in relation to two particular research programs in contemporary physics: wave function realism and loop quantum gravity.
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Wan, Xiao-long. "Four Equivalent Relations between MCP and CP and Its Implication in Quantum and Information Theory." Quantum Engineering 2022 (May 25, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1586534.
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(Norraw) modal propositional logic (MCP) tries to be a strict model for quantum and information theory, but it has serious difficulties in syntax, semantics, and metaphysics. According to the guiding definition of minimal hidden variables, this study presents four equivalences between MCP and classical propositional logic (CP). It concludes that MCP is CP containing minimal syntactic hidden variables, modal axiom represents the classification of CP formulas, and possible world is CP formula as assignment background, which establishes a simpler and unified basis for quantum information theory. The black modal of classical propositional logic (BCP), as an assisted discovery method, reveals that modal nature is actually to express the interdependence between things and their environment in a mathematical way, which can express the holism, dialectics, and uncertainty of metaphysics, and use mark hiding (e.g., f (x) is a function of x, f () is the functional expression, functional-e for short, and “□” is, in fact, a cluster of functional-es in which superscript and subscript are hidden) that does not affect the effectiveness of reasoning to express a more simplified, efficient, and consistent artificial intelligence.
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De Bianchi, Silvia. "Is there a Proteus of Nature?" Project Repository Journal 19, no. 1 (March 13, 2024): 74–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.54050/prj1921257.
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Is there a Proteus of Nature? PROTEUS studies the main strategies devised by Western philosophy in representing time in cosmology. It aims to modify current metaphysics and its relationship with cosmology in light of recent scientific debates in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, thereby boosting new methods and research lines in the history and philosophy of cosmology. This objective has been achieved and gave rise to the COSMOS Network (https://cosmosproject.unimi.it/en/network/) and to the proposal of reinterpreting atemporality and the notion of ordering in philosophy.
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Ribeiro, Hippolyto. "Consequências Metafísicas e Físicas da Teoria Quântica: a revisão do princípio da unidade das leis naturais e as teorias físicas parciais." Aufklärung: journal of philosophy 9, no. 3 (December 30, 2022): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18012/arf.v9i3.62078.
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Investigo as consequências metafísicas da teoria e do fenômeno quântico. Delineando alguns dos principais aspectos do debate filosófico contemporâneo acerca da interpretação da teoria quântica. Analisando três importantes obras recentes: Quantum Ontology: A Guide for the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (2016) de Lewis; Philosophy of Physics (2019) de Maudlin; e The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (2019) de Barrett. Reivindicando, a partir de The Grand Design de Hawking e Mlodinow (2010), que uma interpretação realista da teoria quântica, e de sua influência no estado atual da teoria física, sugere que o princípio metafísico da unidade das leis físicas, e a busca por uma teoria física unificada, é empiricamente injustificado. Defendendo a hipótese de leis e teorias físicas parciais.
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Yurchenko, Sergey B. "Why the Quantum Brain?" OBM Neurobiology 05, no. 03 (May 25, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2103103.
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This article reviews the modern approaches to the quantum brain hypothesis. The aim is to consider the hypothesis and its classical brain-machine alternative from a broad perspective, including physics, biology, computer science, cosmology, and metaphysics. My starting point is that asking whether consciousness can or cannot have free will is fundamentally incorrect. This aspect is challenged by both physics and neuroscience. The paper argues that the search for conscious free will, as it is typically tested in Libet-type experiments, implies putting the cart before the horse. From the evolutionary perspective, a more correct question is this. Might primitive neural networks of simple organisms have possessed free volitional mechanisms (quantum in origin) as an extremely valuable acquisition for the flourishing of life? Might then the mechanisms have evolved from primary (rapid and random) reflexes in the oldest brain regions such as the brainstem to give rise to conscious cortex-centered properties in later stages of the brain evolution?
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Ardelean, Ramona. "Bootstrap’s Monadology. Symmetry and Mirroring Connections between Chew’s Bootstrap Theory and Leibniz’s Monadology." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2022): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp202214221.
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The scientific paradigm which I rely upon in the framework of this article is quantum mechanics, whose “cognitive revolution” consisted of replacing the classical principle of separability with the principle of nonseparability or global intercorrelation. According to this intercorrelation, highlighted at the subatomic level, the part cannot be separated from the whole, because every part has a global and instantaneous connection with the whole universe. For this reason the foundation of the world cannot be the part (elementary particles), but the whole, which is therefore logically and ontologically prior to the part, i.e., self-consistent. Consequently, the principle of global intercorrelation elucidates and validates some of the oldest philosophical problems and intuitions about the unity or self-consistency of the world. An example in this sense is the bootstrap theory of American physicist Geoffrey Chew, which presents such striking similarities to the metaphysical system of Leibniz's Monadology that the two intertwine and mirror each other, like twin souls, to the extent that it could be stated that if Chew’s bootstrap theory represents the explanatory physical level of Leibniz’s metaphysics, then, analogously, Leibniz’s Monadology represents the explanatory metaphysical level of Chew’s physics.
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Schwaninger, Arthur C. "What Simulations Teach Us About Ordinary Objects." Open Philosophy 2, no. 1 (December 2, 2019): 614–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2019-0045.
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AbstractUnder the label of scientific metaphysics, many naturalist metaphysicians are moving away from a priori conceptual analysis and instead seek scientific explanations that will help bring forward a unified understanding of the world. This paper first reviews how our classical assumptions about ordinary objects fail to be true in light of quantum mechanics. The paper then explores how our experiences of ordinary objects arise by reflecting on how our neural system operates algorithmically. Contemporary models and simulations in computational neuroscience are shown to provide a theoretical framework that does not conflict with existing fundamental physical theories, and nonetheless helps us make sense of the manifest image. It is argued that we must largely explain how the manifest image arises in algorithmic terms, so that we can pursue a metaphysics about ordinary objects that is scientifically well founded.
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Rybakova, Irina A. "PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS “STATE” AND “TIME” IN THE TREATISE OF W. HEISENBERG'S “REALITY AND ITS ORDER”." Metaphysics, no. 2 (August 25, 2022): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2022-2-21-29.
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W. Heisenberg's treatise “Reality and its order” is a philosophical work of a scientist and philosopher and reflects the totality of his views on various aspects of reality. In this article, the author attempts to analyze the central concepts of quantum mechanics, “state” and “time”, as well as to determine how relevant the ideas of the treatise may be in the world of modern natural science. This point seems especially important, given the time of writing the treatise (no later than 1942), which gives reason to recall the philosophical foundations on which physics rests, and give them a new interpretation that meets modern challenges. The article shows the need to build modern physics on the principles of metaphysics, that is, to study the subject of physics from the position that the world has a metaphysical basis. Statements about the nature of time by various authors are given: from ancient natural philosophers (Aristotle) to medieval thinkers (Augustine, Grossetest), as well as modern researchers (A.Yu. Sevalnikov, Yu.S. Vladimirov, V.D. Zakharov), etc.
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García Martínez, Luis Miguel. "Lewis, P. (2016). Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press. 232pp." Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía, no. 54 (November 11, 2017): 431. http://dx.doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i54.893.
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Falkenburg, Brigitte, and I. E. Pris. "Philosophy of science: Interview with Brigitte Falkenburg." Philosophy of Science and Technology 26, no. 2 (2021): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2413-9084-2021-26-2-110-114.
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Professor Dr. Brigitte Falkenburg is one of the leading philosophers of science, a representative of the German school of philosophy of science. She wrote or edited about twenty books, and published more than hundred articles on the most topical issues of philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and philosophy of consciousness. Her work is attractive for its clarity, precision and depth of scientific and philosophical analysis. Some of her prominent books include: “Particle metaphysics: A critical account of subatomic reality” (2007), “Kant’s cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason” (2020) etc. In this interview, Prof. Falkenburg talks about her career path, main directions of her research, her books and new projects. Topics such as neo-Kantian philosophy of physics, scientific realism, interpretations of quantum mechanics, reality of virtual particles, the hard problem of consciousness, inductive metaphysics, the limits of scientific knowledge and others are discussed.
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Nagdyan, Ruben M. "Metaphysical unity of transcendental psychology and quantum mechanics. Part 1." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 3, no. 120 (2021): 87–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-3-120-87-99.
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Since the beginning of the XXI st century, there has been a process of intense convergence and interpenetration of two seemingly opposing sciences – quantum mechanics and psychology. In accordance with it, the question arises about a common methodological foundation for these sciences. The article shows that the “first philosophy” of Aristotle can serve as a general philosophical methodology for these sciences. In the context of the metaphysical triad necessarypossible-real, the “intersection points” of A. I. Mirakyan’s transcendental psychology and A. Yu. Sevalnikov’s interpretation of quantum mechanics. The article examines the features of the formation of a new direction in modern psychology, which studies the problem of mental phenomena generation. At the same time, a comparison is made with the transcendentalism of Descartes, in which its limitations and incompleteness are revealed. It is shown that both in transcendental psychology and in quantum mechanics (W. Heisenberg) epistemological problems arise associated with the impossibility of using the language of their classical predecessors. In both sciences, it becomes necessary to apply a new language, a new way of thinking and a new logic of understanding the phenomena under study. All this allows us to conclude that both in transcendental psychology and in quantum mechanics, researchers are dealing with a new ontology of reality that differs from the reality studied in classical physics and in the phenomenology of classical psychology. The article substantiates that the main methodological reason limiting the possibilities of carrying out theoretical studies of deeper layers of reality is the use of the product (physical) approach. The product approach is based on the language used to describe the observed reality. It became necessary to divide reality into observable and unobservable. In the language of metaphysics of modalities, this is translated as «being in possibility» and «being in reality.» One of the “intersection points” of quantum mechanics and transcendental psychology is the category ofpossibility, in which the essence of reality is expressed, which both disciplines compared in this article seek to describe and explain
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Xu, Ziming, and Luyao Fan. "Research on the Compatibility of Quantum Science and Marxist Philosophy." Communications in Humanities Research 27, no. 1 (January 3, 2024): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/27/20232141.
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As an epoch-making achievement in the field of natural science, the scientific principles of quantum mechanics, such as nonlocality, entanglement and decoherence, and role at a distance, have triggered many different interpretations and controversies in the field of philosophy, among which idealism, metaphysics, and agnosticism are based on which to question or even deny dialectical materialism. Marxist philosophy has always closely interacted with natural science. In the face of new and old propositions in quantum mechanics, such as uncertainty principle, quantum tunneling, large distance zero interaction measurement, and Poincare regression of multi particle quantum system, we can promote its compatibility with the new world outlook and methodology of quantum science in the intertextuality interpretation. Quantum mechanics reveals the "intermediate phenomenon" in the process of understanding the micro world, highlighting the dialectical characteristics of materialistic epistemology; It emphasizes probability, but denies that uncertainty is subjective conjecture, defending the objectivity of existence; For the movement and change of things, the status of the contingency category has been improved and the linear causality has been exceeded, but the existence of universal and inevitable connection has not been fundamentally denied.
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Brenner, Joseph E. "Information in Reality: Logic and Metaphysics." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 9, no. 2 (October 30, 2011): 332–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v9i2.282.
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The recent history of information theory and science shows a trend in emphasis from quantitative measures to qualitative characterizations. In parallel, aspects of information are being developed, for example by Pedro Marijuan, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and others that are extending the notion of qualitative, non-computational information in the biological and cognitive domain to include meaning and function. However, there is as yet no consensus on whether a single acceptable definition or theory of the concept of information is possible, leading to many attempts to view it as a complex, a notion with varied meanings or a group of different entities. In my opinion, the difficulties in developing a Unified Theory of Information (UTI) that would include its qualitative and quantita-tive aspects and their relation to meaning are a consequence of implicit or explicit reliance on the principles of standard, truth-functional bivalent or multivalent logics. In reality, information processes, like those of time, change and human con-sciousness, are contradictory: they are regular and irregular; consistent and inconsistent; continuous and discontinuous. Since the indicated logics cannot accept real contradictions, they have been incapable of describing the multiple but interre-lated characteristics of information. The framework for the discussion of information in this paper will be the new extension of logic to real complex processes that I have made, Logic in Reality (LIR), which is grounded in the dualities and self-dualities of quantum physics and cos-mology. LIR provides, among other things, new interpretations of the most fundamental metaphysical questions present in discussions of information at physical, biological and cognitive levels of reality including, especially, those of time, continuity vs. discontinuity, and change, both physical and epistemological. I show that LIR can constitute a novel and general ap-proach to the non-binary properties of information, including meaning and value. These properties subsume the notion of semantic information as well-formed, meaningful and truthful data as proposed most recently by Luciano Floridi. LIR sup-ports the concept of ‘biotic’ information of Stuart Kauffmann, Robert Logan and their colleagues and that of meaningful information developed by Christophe Menant. Logic in Reality does not pretend to the level of rigor of an experimental or mathematical theory. It is proposed as a meth-odology to assist in achieving a minimum scientific legitimacy for a qualitative theory of information. My hope is that by seeing information, meaning and knowledge as dynamic processes, evolving according to logical rules in my extended sense of logic, some of the on-going issues on the nature and function of information may be clarified.
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Brenner, Joseph E. "Information in Reality: Logic and Metaphysics." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 9, no. 2 (October 30, 2011): 332–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol9iss2pp332-341.
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The recent history of information theory and science shows a trend in emphasis from quantitative measures to qualitative characterizations. In parallel, aspects of information are being developed, for example by Pedro Marijuan, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and others that are extending the notion of qualitative, non-computational information in the biological and cognitive domain to include meaning and function. However, there is as yet no consensus on whether a single acceptable definition or theory of the concept of information is possible, leading to many attempts to view it as a complex, a notion with varied meanings or a group of different entities. In my opinion, the difficulties in developing a Unified Theory of Information (UTI) that would include its qualitative and quantita-tive aspects and their relation to meaning are a consequence of implicit or explicit reliance on the principles of standard, truth-functional bivalent or multivalent logics. In reality, information processes, like those of time, change and human con-sciousness, are contradictory: they are regular and irregular; consistent and inconsistent; continuous and discontinuous. Since the indicated logics cannot accept real contradictions, they have been incapable of describing the multiple but interre-lated characteristics of information. The framework for the discussion of information in this paper will be the new extension of logic to real complex processes that I have made, Logic in Reality (LIR), which is grounded in the dualities and self-dualities of quantum physics and cos-mology. LIR provides, among other things, new interpretations of the most fundamental metaphysical questions present in discussions of information at physical, biological and cognitive levels of reality including, especially, those of time, continuity vs. discontinuity, and change, both physical and epistemological. I show that LIR can constitute a novel and general ap-proach to the non-binary properties of information, including meaning and value. These properties subsume the notion of semantic information as well-formed, meaningful and truthful data as proposed most recently by Luciano Floridi. LIR sup-ports the concept of ‘biotic’ information of Stuart Kauffmann, Robert Logan and their colleagues and that of meaningful information developed by Christophe Menant. Logic in Reality does not pretend to the level of rigor of an experimental or mathematical theory. It is proposed as a meth-odology to assist in achieving a minimum scientific legitimacy for a qualitative theory of information. My hope is that by seeing information, meaning and knowledge as dynamic processes, evolving according to logical rules in my extended sense of logic, some of the on-going issues on the nature and function of information may be clarified.
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Fingelkurts, Andrew A., Alexander A. Fingelkurts, Carlos F. H. Neves, and Tarja Kallio-Tamminen. "Brain-mind operational architectonics: At the boundary between quantum physics and Eastern metaphysics." Physics of Life Reviews 31 (December 2019): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.11.001.
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Oldofredi, Andrea, and Cristian López. "On the Classification Between $$\psi$$-Ontic and $$\psi$$-Epistemic Ontological Models." Foundations of Physics 50, no. 11 (September 5, 2020): 1315–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10701-020-00377-x.
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AbstractHarrigan and Spekkens (Found Phys 40:125–157, 2010) provided a categorization of quantum ontological models classifying them as $$\psi$$ ψ -ontic or $$\psi$$ ψ -epistemic if the quantum state $$\psi$$ ψ describes respectively either a physical reality or mere observers’ knowledge. Moreover, they claimed that Einstein—who was a supporter of the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics—endorsed an epistemic view of $$\psi .$$ ψ . In this essay we critically assess such a classification and some of its consequences by proposing a twofold argumentation. Firstly, we show that Harrigan and Spekkens’ categorization implicitly assumes that a complete description of a quantum system (its ontic state, $$\lambda$$ λ ) only concerns single, individual systems instantiating absolute, intrinsic properties. Secondly, we argue that such assumptions conflict with some current interpretations of quantum mechanics, which employ different ontic states as a complete description of quantum systems. In particular, we will show that, since in the statistical interpretation ontic states describe ensembles rather than individuals, such a view cannot be considered $$\psi$$ ψ -epistemic. As a consequence, the authors misinterpreted Einstein’s view concerning the nature of the quantum state. Next, we will focus on relational quantum mechanics and perspectival quantum mechanics, which in virtue of their relational and perspectival metaphysics employ ontic states $$\lambda$$ λ dealing with relational properties. We conclude that Harrigan and Spekkens’ categorization is too narrow and entails an inadequate classification of the mentioned interpretations of quantum theory. Hence, any satisfactory classification of quantum ontological models ought to take into account the variations of $$\lambda$$ λ across different interpretations of quantum mechanics.
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Wright, Derek. "New physics, old metaphysics: quantum and quotidian in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 10 (1997): 221–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.1997.10.16.
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