Spacetime emergence in quantum gravity: Functionalism and the hard problem
| Autor: | Baptiste Le Bihan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Hard problem
Functionalism (philosophy of mind) ddc:100/501 Loop quantum gravity 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Spacetime emergence Philosophy of language Empirical coherence Theoretical physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Theory of relativity 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Explanatory gap Mathematics Spacetime 05 social sciences Spacetime functionalism Quantum gravity General Social Sciences Fundamental ontology 06 humanities and the arts Philosophy 060302 philosophy Qualia |
| Zdroj: | Synthese, Vol. 199 (2021) P. 371–393 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 |
| Popis: | Spacetime functionalism is the view that spacetime is a functional structure implemented by a more fundamental ontology. Lam and Wuthrich have recently argued that spacetime functionalism helps to solve the epistemological problem of empirical coherence in quantum gravity and suggested that it also (dis)solves the hard problem of spacetime, namely the problem of offering a picture consistent with the emergence of spacetime from a non-spatio-temporal structure. First, I will deny that spacetime functionalism solves the hard problem by showing that it comes in various species, each entailing a different attitude towards, or answer to, the hard problem. Second, I will argue that the existence of an explanatory gap, which grounds the hard problem, has not been correctly taken into account in the literature. |
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