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View SchemaNonlocality and Bohr's Reply to EPR
| Authors | Henry P. Stapp |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9712036 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9712036 |
Abstract
David Mermin's recent paper with the same title as this one makes it clear that his claim to have found a gap in my reasoning rests on his claim that my argument violates a criterion for meaningfulness of counterfactual statements that I myself had set down. I set down no such requirement. But I am willing to accept it as a conservative sufficient condition. This already entails, within my proof, that nature must have a deep structure that extends beyond what actually occurs. It imposes, without appeal to the notion of determinism or hidden variables, constraints connecting, at the macroscopic level, what did occur to what would have occurred if certain quantum choices had gone differently. All the statements in the proof have natural meanings within the context of an examination of that deep structure.
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