On 14 Apr 2016, at 20:25, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote:MWI: "local" or not? There are papers *trying* to explain "local" in MWI. In example: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/504/2/cracow.pdf That's a good one, imo. ............................................................................................
Note that with computationalism, we might still expect some physical non-locality, and so it is my "physical intuition" which makes me skeptical. Despite I think that physics is only an appearance emerging from arithmetic see from inside by computable objects, I tend to infer from observation and reasoning that both QM and special relativity are plausibly correct, together with some minimal amount of physical realism (but not physical fundamentalism). Non locality would hurt badly that feeling. Physics would no more have any relation with a reality independent of ourself, and would go farer in weirdness than what we can expect from digital mechanism! Bruno Imo "local" (and perhaps also "deterministic") sounds crazy in MWI. "Separable" would be better? Right now, I'm reading something ..... “It appears that an understanding is possible via the notion of information. Information seen as the possibility of obtaining knowledge. Then quantum entanglement describes a situation where information exists about possible correlations between possible future results of possible future measurements without any information existing for the individual measurements. The latter explains quantum randomness, the first quantum entanglement. And both have significant consequences for our customary notions of causality. It remains to be seen what the consequences are for our notions of space and time, or space-time for that matter. Space-time itself cannot be above or beyond such considerations. I suggest we need a new deep analysis of space-time, a conceptual analysis maybe analogous to the one done by the Viennese physicist-philosopher Ernst Mach who kicked Newton’s absolute space and absolute time form their throne. The hope is that in the end we will have new physics analogous to Einstein’s new physics in the two theories of relativity.” --A. Zeilinger: http://edge.org/response-detail/26790 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
