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Can the universe be fully deterministic on a macro scale but not on a micro scale?
There is a strong "wish it were so" inclination in us humans for the universe to be simple and understandable. This is the motivation for wanting the universe to be predictable and ...
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How come when theories of concepts are made, there is never an agnostic point of accepting that there may be things we will never know?
I think what you mean is that there is a difference between how we perceive reality and how it actually is.
The most important and unbreachable dividing line is in your head. There are also dividing ...
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In 'quantum immortality', what is "survival" meant to entail?
"Quantum Immortality" is a controversial extension of the already controversial "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. The problem being addressed is that the world ...
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Books on the philosophy of quantum mechanics
I am not an expert in the field of philosophy of quantum mechanics. However, I would like to recommend some books that draw my attention from these authors' discussions.
An Introduction to the ...
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Quantum probability theory and the idea of a "truth-value sphere"
So, the comparison would be to the Bloch Sphere (which maps to the Rieman sphere). But I'd say you need to follow the analogy more closely. The square root of truth would be a truth wavefunction, the ...
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Quantum probability theory and the idea of a "truth-value sphere"
Couldn't restrain myself ... my shot at an answer:
a × a = a²
a² = -n
Necessary (?) that a = a (definition of square root)
Necessary (?) that a < 0 AND a > 0 (a product that's negative must ...
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Can the universe be fully deterministic on a macro scale but not on a micro scale?
One can make (or find in nature) a detector for a quantum event. A detector is a machine that converts a signal that is hard to detect (including a specific part of another signal) into a state that ...
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Union of Cosmopsychism and the Many Worlds Interpretation
I do not have specific authors to point you toward, but I have a direction for you to conduct your search.
What you are looking for is the fusion of the idealist "mind-at-large" of the ...
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Ballentine on the concept of state (ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics)
Comment (but too long for comments):
Ballentine's whole conception of "state" is based on information acquirable by reproducible experiments. And that information-based interpretation is ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
The crucial advantage of MWI is not that it eliminates randomness, but that it eliminates the complexity of "wavefunction collapse."
The Copenhagen interpretation needs to explain when the ...
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Does Multi-World Interpretation really eliminate randomness in quantum mechanics?
This is just a variant of "why am I me and not someone else?". It doesn't matter whether you and the someone else are in the same room, or so far from each other that their observable ...
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In 'quantum immortality', what is "survival" meant to entail?
I should confess at the outset that I have no time for the pop-science version of the many worlds interpretation. That said, I will try to answer your question in accordance with the principle of ...
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What if time and quantum corrections were created because the idea of "god" was damaged?
This is one formulation of perhaps the most well-known and intractable problem in theology, the "Problem of Evil." The basic concept is "how could a good and perfect (and all-powerful) ...
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Heisenberg, Copenhagen and probability in QM
The so-called Copenhagen Interpretation is not a single interpretation but a collection with some common ground. The entities it pre-supposes are particles, fields or potentials, time, space and ...
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What kind of philosophy of the foundations of physics can there be?
Hmmm. I am not a logician, and just the abstract of that link appears to be in a foreign language to me!
However, I think I can answer your question anyway.
There were two different things that ...
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How does Quantum Mechanics affect the modern account of free will and determinism?
The question of free will is not "could it have been otherwise?' It is "could I have had an effect on the outcome?" Could I have chosen an ice cream and thereby affect the outcome? The ...
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How does Quantum Mechanics affect the modern account of free will and determinism?
Your question is impossible to answer decisively because there are so many conflicting interpretations of what free will means, and so many conflicting theories associated with each interpretation. ...
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