Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events
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 op...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-457122024-04-04T19:19:06Z Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events Karl Svozil QC1-999 Self-reflexive knowledge Physical chaos Physical random number generators Irreducible randomness Randomness in physics Physical indeterminism Acausality in physics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics 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. 2021-02-11T12:01:16Z 2021-02-11T12:01:16Z 2018-06-29 14:42:45 2018 book 27225 0168-1222 0 9783319708157 9783319708140 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45712 eng Fundamental Theories of Physics image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319708140?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9783319708157 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7 Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a ece1cbfc-e040-476a-a455-390010b417eb 9783319708157 9783319708140 219 OpenAIRE open access |
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| title_full | Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events |
| title_fullStr | Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events |
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| title_short | Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events |
| title_sort | physical a causality determinism randomness and uncaused events |
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