Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
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| author | Franklin, Alexander |
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| contents | The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of critiques due to Baker (2007) and Dawid and Thébault (2015) that cast the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent; responses are also offered to challenges to the Everettian approach from Maudlin (2010) and Monton (2013). |
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| spellingShingle | Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge Franklin, Alexander Quantum Physics History and Philosophy of Physics The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of critiques due to Baker (2007) and Dawid and Thébault (2015) that cast the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent; responses are also offered to challenges to the Everettian approach from Maudlin (2010) and Monton (2013). |
| title | Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge |
| topic | Quantum Physics History and Philosophy of Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16020 |