ON QUANTUM FUNDAMENTALISM
Igor Evgenievich Pris
Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Keywords: measurement problem, quantum (anti-)fundamentalism, Bohr, contextual quantum realism
Abstract
According to one of the possible diagnoses of the quantum measurement problem, it is a consequence of quantum fundamentalism, which claims that ontology and epistemology of the world are exclusively quantum, and classical physics is only an approximation. For N. Bohr, the problem of measurement is a pseudo-problem, since any quantum phenomenon presupposes a classical context of an experimental unit and the use of classical concepts to describe it. We consider Bohr’s position in terms of our contextual quantum realism (QCR), which is inspired by the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein. Our approach is consistent with H. Zinkernagel’s interpretation, which is that Bohr’s position is not only epistemological anti-fundamentalism, but also ontological anti-fundamentalism.
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