Quantum Mechanics and Perceptive Processes: A Reply to Elio Conte

Can quantum cryptography imply quantum mechanics? reply to Smolin

Clifton, Bub, and Halvorson (CBH) have argued that quantum mechanics can be derived from three cryptographic, or broadly information-theoretic, axioms. But Smolin disagrees, and he has given a toy theory that he claims is a counterexample. Here we show that Smolin’s toy theory violates an independence condition for spacelike separated systems that was assumed in the CBH argument. We then argue ...

Reply to No Contradictions between Bohmian and quantum mechanics

When these are substituted into his equation (17), the right hand side of his equation (18) vanishes. What Marchildon’s calculations have, in fact, established is that the assumption of translation invariance (Fraunhoffer diffraction and plane waves) imposed by me in my papers are sufficient but not necessary to obtain the basic result, namely that the trajectories are symmetrical at all times ...

Stochastic Processes and Quantum Mechanics

Reply to "Comment on 'Intrinsic decoherence in quantum mechanics' "

Causal Processes and Propensities in Quantum Mechanics

In an influential article published in 1982, Bas Van Fraassen developed an argument against causal realism on the basis of an analysis of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations of quantum mechanics. Several philosophers of science and experts in causal inference – including some causal realists like Wesley Salmon – have accepted Van Fraassen’s argument, interpreting it as a proof that the qua...