Philosophical lessons of entanglement
Abstract
The quantum-mechanical description of the world, including human observers, makes substantial use of entanglement. In order to understand this, we need to adopt concepts of truth, probability and time which are unfamiliar in modern scientific thought. There are two kinds of statements about the world: those made from inside the world, and those from outside. The conflict between contradictory statements which both appear to be true can be resolved by recognising that they are made in different perspectives. Probability, in an objective sense, belongs in the internal perspective, and to statements in the future tense. Such statements obey a many-valued logic, in which the truth values are identified as probabilities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.4318,
title = {Philosophical lessons of entanglement},
author = {Anthony Sudbery},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4318},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Talk given at 75 Years of Quantum Entanglement, Kolkata, India, 10 January 2011