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Physical (A)Causality [electronic resource] : Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events / by Karl Svozil.
Author
Svozil, Karl
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 2018.
Published/Created
Springer Nature 2018
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (XIV, 219 p. 32 illus., 24 illus. in color.)
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Subject(s)
Physics
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Mathematical physics
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Epistemology
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Probabilities
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Philosophy and science
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Editor
Giesy, John P.
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Giesy, John P.
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Solomon, Keith R.
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Solomon, Keith R.
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Giesy, John P.
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Solomon, Keith R.
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Series
Fundamental Theories of Physics, 192
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Fundamental Theories of Physics, 0168-1222 ; 192
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Summary note
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: are these limitations reflected by our models? Under what circumstances does chance kick in? Is chance in physics merely epistemic? In other words, do we simply not know enough, or use too crude levels of description for our predictions? Or are certain events "truly", that is, irreducibly, random? The book tries to answer some of these questions by introducing intrinsic, embedded observers and provable unknowns; that is, observables and procedures which are certified (relative to the assumptions) to be unknowable or undoable. A (somewhat iconoclastic) review of quantum mechanics is presented which is inspired by quantum logic. Postulated quantum (un-)knowables are reviewed. More exotic unknowns originate in the assumption of classical continua, and in finite automata and generalized urn models, which mimic complementarity and yet maintain value definiteness. Traditional conceptions of free will, miracles and dualistic interfaces are based on gaps in an otherwise deterministic universe. .
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Funding information
OpenAIRE
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Language note
English
Contents
Part I Embedded observers, reflexive perception and representation: Intrinsic and extrinsic observation mode
Embedded observers and self-expression
Reflexive measurement
Intrinsic self-representation
Part II Provable unknowns: On what is entirely hopeless
Forecasting and unpredictability
Induction by rule inference
Other types of recursion theoretic unknowables
What if there are no laws? Emergence of laws
Part III Quantum unknowns: "Shut up and calculate"
Evolution by permutation
Quantum mechanics in a nutshell
Quantum oracles
Vacuum fluctuations
Radioactive decay
Part IV Exotic unknowns: Classical continua and infinities
Classical (in)determinism
Deterministic chaos
Partition logics, finite automata and generalized urn models
Part V Transcendence: Miracles
Dualistic interfaces
Part VI Executive summary: Executive summary
Appendix A: Formal (in)computability and randomness
B: Two particle correlations and expectations.
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ISBN
3-319-70815-5
3-319-03865-6
OCLC
1041487879
1231603745
Doi
10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7
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