Quantum Theory and Idealism
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https://doi.org/10.14738/aivp.113.14724Keywords:
quantum theory, idealism, hard problem of consciousness, Bell inequality, Bertlmann's socks, EPR paradoxAbstract
We find that the Wigner Probability Distribution has a fully classical interpretation, and that the microscopic world is not a "black box" (per the Copenhagen Interpretation). Probability represents our state of knowledge of a system. However, in quantum theory, as opposed to classical theory, cause and effect is at the level of our state of knowledge, , not the state of the world, . Quantum theory is idealistic in the sense of Berkeley: the world is a conscious, shared hallucination.
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