Some Remarks on the Notion of Separability Within the Creation Discovery View

Abstract

In this paper we present Aerts' vessels of water model which violates Bell inequalities, and discuss how this fits in the Creation Discovery View in the context of the Operational Quantum Logic approach. We analyze the 2 different ways in which correlation is classically observed, either as pre-existing 'independent of measurement' or established by sending a signal, hence limited by the speed of light. As the Aerts' model shows, there is yet a third possibility, namely a situation in which correlation is potentially present, but only actualized to its full extent by the act of measurement. This creation-discovery view can be applied to the quantum mechanical situation of two entangled photons, and shows that in the debate of understanding 'what is really going on in Aspects experiments' an alternative explanation can be found, in which potentiality, creation and discovery play a central role.

Metaphysical Issues in the Philosophical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

“…"The main hypothesis of this new interpretation is that quantum particles are entities interacting with matter conceptually, which means that pieces of matter function as interfaces for the conceptual content carried by the quantum particles." Aerts also provides his own interpretation of potentiality which is explained in terms of his well known example of "the vessels of water experiment" (Aerts, 1982; see also Christiaens et al, 2010). In this paper Aerts goes deeper into his own attempts (Aerts, 1983;1985;1993; to provide a metaphyscal account of physical reality based on a non-space like description of the quantum realm.…”