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Sensible quantum experiences: Encounters with Stein's philosophy of quantum mechanics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics ( IF 1.663 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.10.002
Thomas Pashby

Abstract This paper develops an approach to the interpretation of quantum mechanics inspired by the philosophy of Howard Stein. Taking up Stein’s (1994) call to schematize the observer and the observation, I introduce a class of observables called ‘sensibles’ which provide a means to assign probabilities to an observer's experiences of experimental phenomena. In particular, sensibles provide an assignment of probabilities to an event space that, while satisfying the demands of probability theory, also allows for an interpretation of these events as occurring at definite space-time regions. On this understanding, the experimental events to which probabilities are ascribed are conditional occurrences—types of events which occur at a definite location in a specific experimental context. This proposal differs from dynamical collapse theories such as GRWf since these sensibles are genuine quantum observables arising from the unitary dynamics of the theory. I conclude with some remarks on the import of Stein's philosophy for the measurement problem.

中文翻译:

明智的量子经验:与斯坦因的量子力学哲学相遇

摘要本文从霍华德·斯坦因的哲学出发,提出了一种解释量子力学的方法。承接斯坦因(1994)的电话来示意观察者和观察的示意图,我介绍了一类称为“敏感者”的可观察对象,它提供了一种将概率分配给观察者的实验现象经验的手段。特别是,明智的做法为事件空间提供了概率分配,在满足概率论的要求的同时,还允许将这些事件解释为发生在确定的时空区域。根据这种理解,归因于概率的实验事件是条件事件,即在特定实验环境中在确定位置发生的事件类型。该提议不同于诸如GRWf之类的动力学崩溃理论,因为这些可感知性是由该理论的统一动力学产生的真正的量子可观察性。最后,我对斯坦因关于测量问题的哲学思想作了总结。
更新日期:2020-02-01
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