• The Problems of Quantum Mechanics and Possible Solutions - Copenhagen Interpretation, Many Worlds Interpretation, Transactional Interpretation, Decoherence and Quantum Logic

    Author(s):
    Rochelle Forrester (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Subject(s):
    Cognitive science--Philosophy, Philosophy, Realism, Idealism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Copenhagen Interpretation, theory of knowledge, observer dependent universe, quantum physics, quantum mechanics, Philosophy of cognitive science, Epistemology
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/2gvn-yh88
    Abstract:
    This paper reviews some of the literature on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The publications involved tend to follow similar patterns of first identifying the mysteries, puzzles or paradoxes of the quantum world, and then discussing the existing interpretations of these matters, before the authors produce their own interpretations, or side with one of the existing views. The paper will show that all interpretations of quantum mechanics involve elements of apparent weirdness. They suggest that the quantum world, and possibly our macro world, exists or behaves in a way quite contrary to the way we normally imagine they should. The paper will also show how many of the writers on quantum mechanics misunderstand idealism in the macro world as proposed by philosophers such as George Berkeley, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill and misunderstand the concept of the observer dependent universe. The paper concludes by examining the similarities between the idealist view of the macro world and the Copenhagen Interpretation of the quantum world and suggests that as the Copenhagen Interpretation provides a view of the quantum world that is consistent with the macro world then the Copenhagen Interpretation should be the preferred view of the quantum world.
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