The causal problem of entanglement
| Autor: | Paul M. Näger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Philosophy of science
General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts Quantum entanglement 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 01 natural sciences Causal Markov condition Philosophy of language Dilemma Philosophy Bayes' theorem Bell's theorem 060302 philosophy 0103 physical sciences Econometrics Causal decision theory 010306 general physics Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Synthese. 193:1127-1155 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-015-0668-6 |
| Popis: | This paper expounds that besides the well-known spatio-temporal problem there is a causal problem of entanglement: even when one neglects spatio-temporal constraints, the peculiar statistics of EPR/B experiment is inconsistent with usual principles of causal explanation as stated by the theory of causal Bayes nets. The conflict amounts to a dilemma that either there are uncaused correlations (violating the causal Markov condition) or there are caused independences (violating the causal faithfulness condition). I argue that the central ideas of causal explanations can be saved if one accepts the latter horn and explains the unfaithful independences by a stable fine-tuning of the causal parameters. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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