Potentiality, Actuality and Non-Separability in Quantum and Classical Physics: Res Potentiae in the Macroscopic World

Bishop, Robert R.; Brenner, Joseph E.

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“…18 The theory thus calls to mind Heisenberg's "potentia" [96,97]. The place of this notion in quantum mechanics has been explored extensively (see, e.g., [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106]) but, to the best of my knowledge, always in terms of a single possibility being actualized stochastically. In the present theory, all possibilities with weights above the preclusion threshold are actualized deterministically.…”

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“…From (46) we see that for W f,k the relevant D is N + 1. We have shown that for large enough N, W f,k , k = k ′ , k < or k > , will be smaller than ǫ 1 , and so will be smaller than ǫ P (N +1) = ǫ 1 •(N +1), while the condition ǫ P ≪ 1 allows W f,k ′ , W f,k< and W f,k> to remain unprecluded (see (72), (103).…”

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Probability, Preclusion and Biological Evolution in Heisenberg-Picture Everett Quantum Mechanics

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2020

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The fact that certain "extraordinary" probabilistic phenomena-in particular, macroscopic violations of the second law of thermodynamics-have never been observed to occur can be accounted for by taking hard preclusion as a basic physical law; i.e. precluding from existence events corresponding to very small but nonzero values of quantum-mechanical weight. This approach is not consistent with the usual ontology of the Everett interpretation, in which outcomes correspond to branches of the state vector, but can be successfully implemented using a Heisenberg-picturebased ontology in which outcomes are encoded in transformations of operators. Hard preclusion can provide an explanation for biological evolution, which can in turn explain our subjective experiences of, and reactions to, "ordinary" probabilistic phenomena, and the compatibility of those experiences and reactions with what we conventionally take to be objective probabilities arising from physical laws.

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Probability, Preclusion and Biological Evolution in Heisenberg-Picture Everett Quantum Mechanics

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2020

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Potentiality, Actuality and Non-Separability in Quantum and Classical Physics: Res Potentiae in the Macroscopic World

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