Bitbol, Michel and De la Tremblaye, Laura (2022) QBISM: AN ECO-PHENOMENOLOGY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A discrepancy between the instrumentalist and the realist inclinations of QBism, or between its experiential and interactional concepts of measurement, has been repeatedly noticed. Here, we show that this discrepancy can be resolved by adopting a phenomenological approach throughout. In other terms, the difficulty can be overcome by unambiguously choosing a first-person standpoint as a radical starting point, and by ascending from this situated lived experience of a knowing and acting subject, to the structure and use of the quantum formalism. To reconstruct some crucial features of the objectivity promised by science, and to accommodate the most uncontroversible realist intuitions of QBist authors, a phenomenological analysis of what is commonly called “the world” is proposed. This analysis is based on Bruce Bégout’s “Eco-Phenomenology”, that replaces the concept of a somehow external relation between subject and world, with the immersive experience of a subject partaking of the world.
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| Keywords: | Quantum mechanics, phenomenology, Husserl, Realism, Instrumentalism, first-person experience | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Michel Bitbol | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2022 04:39 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2022 04:39 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 20090 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 2 January 2022 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20090 |
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