Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward Causation
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Backward causation, hidden variables and the meaning of completeness
Bell’s theorem requires the assumption that hidden variables are independent of future measurement settings. This independence assumption rests on surprisingly shaky ground. In particular, it is puzzlingly time-asymmetric. The paper begins with a summary of the case for considering hidden variable models which, in abandoning this independence assumption, allow a degree of ‘backward causation’. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Entropy
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e23020251