On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 3:06:08 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:27 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> I notice you habitually avoid discussing the problem of ontological >> versus epistemological * > > > It is a ontological fact that Bell's inequality is violated and there is > no epistemological explanation for that fact. You keep wanting a mental > picture of the quantum world that conforms with your common sense everyday > expectations of how things should work, I'd like that too but our wish will > never be granted. I like Many Worlds because although it's very bizarre > it's the least bizarre quantum interpretation that fits the hyper bizarre > facts; but the universe doesn't care what I think is strange so if it turns > out Many Worlds is not true then we would know that something even stranger > is. > > John K Clark >
There is no decision procedure to determine if QM is ψ-epistemic or ψ-ontic. It is not provable either way. LC -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1d4b06ad-860a-42ae-a543-2ae3238117de%40googlegroups.com.
