Franklin, Alexander (2022) Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of a critique by Dawid and Thébault (2015) that casts the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent; responses are also offered to challenges to the Everettian approach from Maudlin (2010) and Monton (2013).
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Keywords: | Quantum mechanics Everett Many Worlds Decoherence Emergence | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Depositing User: | Dr Alexander Franklin | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2022 13:11 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2022 13:11 | ||||||
Item ID: | 21288 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Date: | October 2022 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21288 |
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