Niels Bohr and Complementarity

Plotnitsky, Arkady

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4517-3

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“…40,[48][49][50] In this context, the typical signatures of quantum physics appear as result of the impossibility to gather data about the (atomic) objects without significantly disturbing their behavior. While this viewpoint is implicit in the LI derivation of equations such as the Schrödinger equation, [1][2][3] in our view, the separation procedure discussed in the present paper does not really address this issue.…”

Section: Relation To Previous Work 41 Subject-object Separationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

Raedt

Katsnelson

Donker

et al. 2015

The Nature of Light: What Are Photons? VI

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We propose and develop the thesis that the quantum theoretical description of experiments emerges from the desire to organize experimental data such that the description of the system under scrutiny and the one used to acquire the data are separated as much as possible. Application to the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments are shown to support this thesis. General principles of logical inference which have been shown to lead to the Schrödinger and Pauli equation and the probabilistic descriptions of the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments, are used to demonstrate that the condition for the separation procedure to yield the quantum theoretical description is intimately related to the assumptions that the observed events are independent and that the data generated by these experiments is robust with respect to small changes of the conditions under which the experiment is carried out.

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Section: Relation To Previous Work 41 Subject-object Separationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

Raedt

Katsnelson

Donker

et al. 2015

The Nature of Light: What Are Photons? VI

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“…What would be describable and publicly communicable in terms of classical concepts, then, are "phenomena", that is, the effects of the interactions between quantum objects and measuring instruments which classically manifest in measuring instruments [22] (p. 168). The classical concepts, such as "the concepts of distance and time interval between different superposed or entangled components are undefined as long as they remain unobserved, i.e., free of interactions with macroscopic systems [14] …”

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Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Maleeh

2014

Information

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This paper aims to introduce a developed reading of Roederer's interpretation of pragmatic information as a good candidate for a Unifying Information Concept required for an as-yet-unavailable Science of Information. According to pragmatic information, information and information processing are exclusive attributes of biological systems related to the very definition of life. I will apply the notion to give new accounts in the following areas: (1) quantum interpretation: based on a modified version of David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics, I propose an ontological, information-based interpretation of quantum mechanics which, unlike Roederer's interpretation, satisfies all conditions of pragmatic information; (2) artificial intelligence: the notion successfully distinguishes natural living systems from artifacts and natural non-living systems, providing a context to pose an information-based argument against the thesis of Strong Artificial Intelligence; (3) phenomenal consciousness: I will use pragmatic information to modify and update Chalmers's Double-aspect Theory of Information to be explanatorily more powerful regarding the physical aspect of his theory; (4) causation: based on pragmatic information, I pose a new account of causation which differentiates causation in biology from causation in natural abiotic world.

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“…However, in the early days of quantum mechanics, the unspeakability of quantum systems was accepted by almost everyone. Thinking of the quantum world as ineffable and beyond the reach of thought [22], forgetting that the quantum world is the one in front of our noses, encouraged the perception that quantum mechanical measurements are so utterly different from classical ones that no points of contact with classical concepts are possible. In particular, it encouraged the assumption that the classical concept of error cannot carry over to quantum mechanics in any shape or form.…”

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Quantum Errors and Disturbances: Response to Busch, Lahti and Werner

Appleby

2016

Entropy

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Busch, Lahti and Werner (BLW) have recently criticized the operator approach to the description of quantum errors and disturbances. Their criticisms are justified to the extent that the physical meaning of the operator definitions has not hitherto been adequately explained. We rectify that omission. We then examine BLW's criticisms in the light of our analysis. We argue that, although the BLW approach favour (based on the Wasserstein two-deviation) has its uses, there are important physical situations where an operator approach is preferable. We also discuss the reason why the error-disturbance relation is still giving rise to controversies almost a century after Heisenberg first stated his microscope argument. We argue that the source of the difficulties is the problem of interpretation, which is not so wholly disconnected from experimental practicalities as is sometimes supposed.

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Niels Bohr and Complementarity

Cited by 99 publications

References 26 publications

Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

Pragmatic Information as a Unifying Biological Concept

Quantum Errors and Disturbances: Response to Busch, Lahti and Werner

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