THE RELATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CONTEXTUAL REALISM
Igor Evgenyevich Pris1, Anna Yuryevna Storozhuk2, Aleksandr Leonidovich Simanov2
1Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
2Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: реляционная квантовая механика, квантовая корреляция, квантовая система, квантовый наблюдатель, квантовое событие, квантовая теория, квантовое явление, метафизический реализм, контекстуальный реализм, relational quantum mechanics, quantum correlation, quantum system, quantum observer, quantum event, quantum theory, quantum phenomenon, metaphysical realism, contextual realism
Abstract
The article proposes a contextual realist interpretation of one of the most popular modern versions of quantum mechanics such as Carlo Rovelli's relational quantum mechanics. The fundamentals points are correct interpretation of the concept of reality and taking into account the categorial difference between the ideal (concepts, theories, observers) and the real (applications of a theory, real objects, observed systems). In our interpretation, the observer consciousness (subjectivity) plays no metaphysical role. Our approach may also be regarded as a return to the Copenhagen interpretation (in a broad sense) corrected within the framework of contextual realism. In our view, later interpretations of quantum mechanics turned out to be worse than the original one proposed by the founding fathers of quantum physics. Contextual realism makes it possible to avoid metaphysical problems which different interpretations of quantum mechanics face with, including the relational one, to give a non-metaphysic interpretation of a quantum event arising when measuring a physical quantity, as well as a realistic and local interpretation of quantum correlations.
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