Hemmo, Meir and Shenker, Orly (2020) Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics needs more than Hilbert space structure. Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy. pp. 61-70. ISSN 9781138479982
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Abstract
McQueen and Vaidman argue that the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics provides local causal explanations of the outcomes of experiments in our experience that is due to the total effect of all the worlds together. We show that although the explanation is local in one world, it requires a causal influence that travels across different worlds. We further argue that in the MWI the local nature of our experience is not derivable from the Hilbert space structure, but has to be added to it as an independent postulate. This is due to what we call the factorisation-symmetry and basis-symmetry of Hilbert space.
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| Keywords: | basis-symmetry of Hilbert space; branching structure; causation; causation across worlds; decoherence; experience; locality; locality of interactions; many-worlds; factorisation-symmetry of Hilbert space; preferred basis problem; quantum state; Schrödinger’s equation; stability (of memories); survival advantage | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Orly Shenker | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2020 14:16 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2020 14:16 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 18072 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.routledge.com/Scientific-Challenges-to... | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | |||||||||
| Date: | September 2020 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 61-70 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 9781138479982 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18072 |
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