Many things I don't know but wish I did
The Bell inequalities:
quantum entanglement: which I think is related to complementarity and the idea that the wave and the particle are entangled . . .
EPR: Einstein, Podolsky Rosen Paradox--These guys believed that quantum physics was inadequate because "if interacting systems satisfy separability and locality, then the description of systems provided by state vectors is not complete" (from stanford encyclopedia), arguing that this happened because the information about the outcomes was already contained in the particles in some "hidden parameters" for which quantum mechanics had no explanation. I totally do not understand this except that it was considered a problem in quantum mechanics.
Wavefunction (is this the wave that Stapp talks about collapsing?)-- central mathematical symbol of quantum mechanics that tells the probability of an event.
Quantum states--This is what Mohroff says about quantum states: Quantum states are not evolving states of affairs. Quantum states are probabilities. They just are.)
And Folse: We need to recognize that in the quantum state, we are looking at a system in interaction. Objects are not, as observed, isolated. From this conclusion, the author adds that we have to acknowledge that these interactions do not have a determined outcome and "indeterminacy is a real aspect of nature" (p. 11).
and Bohr "The CI (Copenhagen interpretation) holds that in a quantum state, the observing system is part of the object system; they are complementary to one another."
and Fuchs
Fuchs states: "the quantum state is information. Subjective, incomplete information" (p. 11). He seems to be making a distinction between information which is a human generated body of knowledge and the quantum system which implies something real outside of human.
quantum entanglement: which I think is related to complementarity and the idea that the wave and the particle are entangled . . .
EPR: Einstein, Podolsky Rosen Paradox--These guys believed that quantum physics was inadequate because "if interacting systems satisfy separability and locality, then the description of systems provided by state vectors is not complete" (from stanford encyclopedia), arguing that this happened because the information about the outcomes was already contained in the particles in some "hidden parameters" for which quantum mechanics had no explanation. I totally do not understand this except that it was considered a problem in quantum mechanics.
Wavefunction (is this the wave that Stapp talks about collapsing?)-- central mathematical symbol of quantum mechanics that tells the probability of an event.
Quantum states--This is what Mohroff says about quantum states: Quantum states are not evolving states of affairs. Quantum states are probabilities. They just are.)
And Folse: We need to recognize that in the quantum state, we are looking at a system in interaction. Objects are not, as observed, isolated. From this conclusion, the author adds that we have to acknowledge that these interactions do not have a determined outcome and "indeterminacy is a real aspect of nature" (p. 11).
and Bohr "The CI (Copenhagen interpretation) holds that in a quantum state, the observing system is part of the object system; they are complementary to one another."
and Fuchs
Fuchs states: "the quantum state is information. Subjective, incomplete information" (p. 11). He seems to be making a distinction between information which is a human generated body of knowledge and the quantum system which implies something real outside of human.
Quantum States are an algorithm for assigning probabilities to what might result from a measurement (see http://www.informationphilosopher.com/presentations/Milan/papers/Mohrhoff_on_Stapp.pdf)
Quantum states are not actual states of affairs but probabilities about possible states of affairs)Mohroff says states are probabilities, which I think Fuchs believes as well,
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