On Quantum Causality

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作者
Pris, Igor E.
机构
[1] Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1/2, ul. Surganova, Minsk
来源
VESTNIK SANKT-PETERBURGSKOGO UNIVERSITETA-FILOSOFIYA I KONFLIKTOLOGIYA | 2023年 / 39卷 / 03期
关键词
classical correlation; quantum correlation; classical causality; quantum causality; language game; local realism; contextual quantum realism;
D O I
10.21638/spbu17.2023.305
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
For Kant causality is an a priori category of the understanding, a necessary condition for the possibility of any experience. Later Wittgenstein's philosophy rejects transcendentalism. We can only speak of causes and effects if in some basic situations, or 'language games,' we already treat some things as causes of what happens. Since the notion of cause becomes meaningful only within a language game, it is not unambiguous. Quantum causal language games presuppose the use of quantum theory. We treat the latter as Wittgenstein's grammar of a quantum 'form of life,' or rule (norm), anchored in its applications - quantum phenomena as language games. Quantum correlations are often interpreted as a manifestation of the nonlocality of quantum mechanics. This is a view of quantum phenomena from the perspective of classical physics. Our contextual point of view rejects the nonlocality of quantum theory in the sense of instantaneous causal influence at a distance. But it does not admit its locality in the sense of classical causality either. We introduce the notion of quantum causality which allows us to treat quantum correlations as local, but context-dependent. Their formal cause is an entangled wave function. Any particular quantum correlation, identifiable in a context of its observation as a result of the wave function reduction, post factum can be treated as a classical causal correlation. From the point of view of the proposed contextual quantum realism, epistemology is secondary, and ontology is sensitive to context. Quantum correlations exist (are real) before application of the theory, independently of their identification (description, measurement), but have no identity, which appears only as a result of application of the theory and their identification in the context. In other words, they are real, but not pre-determined, not autonomous.
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