On Time, Causation and Explanation in the Causally Symmetric Bohmian Model of Quantum Mechanics

Berkovitz, Joseph

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53725-2_8

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“…The contention that 'backwards' time travel is logically impossible has been shown elsewhere to be false (e.g. see : Horwich 1987;Smith 1997;Riggs 1997;Ismael 2003;Hanley 2004;Smeenk & Wüttrich 2011;Kutach 2013;and Berkovitz 2017).…”

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The Temporal Epistemic Anomaly

Riggs

2018

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It is not uncommon in time travel stories to find that the mechanism by which the time travel is achieved is not invented. A time traveller could journey to his/her own past and give the designs of the time travel machine to his/her earlier self as s/he was given the designs as a younger person. These designs never get thought up by anyone. Such a situation would conflict with the usual conception of the acquisition of knowledge. This situation is called the Temporal Epistemic Anomaly and would arise if knowledge is gained at a time prior to the information in question being transmitted but is not discovered or invented at any time. This article examines the implications of information propagating around a causal chain that is closed in time (which is required to create the Anomaly) and whether this information need have a specific origin point.

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The Temporal Epistemic Anomaly

Riggs

2018

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“…To be sure, the unfamiliarity of such proposals is not reason to reject them; however, the piling critical literature about them nowadays witnesses their loss of attractiveness as a concrete solution to the problem. For instance, several arguments based on paradoxes have been put forward for the impossibility of backward causation (e.g., [ 3 ]); regardless of said arguments, reference [ 4 ] shows that such models fail to explain correlations both in indeterministic and in deterministic models. (See also [ 5 ], and [ 6 ] for a response.)…”

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On Explaining Quantum Correlations: Causal vs. Non-Causal

Felline¹

2021

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At the basis of the problem of explaining non-local quantum correlations lies the tension between two factors: on the one hand, the natural interpretation of correlations as the manifestation of a causal relation; on the other, the resistance on the part of the physics underlying said correlations to adjust to the most essential features of a pre-theoretic notion of causation. In this paper, I argue for the rejection of the first horn of the dilemma, i.e., the assumption that quantum correlations call for a causal explanation. The paper is divided into two parts. The first, destructive, part provides a critical overview of the enterprise of causally interpreting non-local quantum correlations, with the aim of warning against the temptation of an account of causation claiming to cover such correlations ‘for free’. The second, constructive, part introduces the so-called structural explanation (a variety of non-causal explanation that shows how the explanandum is the manifestation of a fundamental structure of the world) and argues that quantum correlations might be explained structurally in the context of an information-theoretic approach to QT.

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On Time, Causation and Explanation in the Causally Symmetric Bohmian Model of Quantum Mechanics

Cited by 2 publications

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The Temporal Epistemic Anomaly

The Temporal Epistemic Anomaly

On Explaining Quantum Correlations: Causal vs. Non-Causal

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