Felline Laura
Independent Researcher, 00145 Rome, Italy.
Entropy (Basel). 2021 May 10;23(5):589. doi: 10.3390/e23050589.
At the basis of the problem of explaining non-local quantum correlations lies the tension between two factors: on the one hand, the natural interpretation of correlations as the manifestation of a causal relation; on the other, the resistance on the part of the physics underlying said correlations to adjust to the most essential features of a pre-theoretic notion of causation. In this paper, I argue for the rejection of the first horn of the dilemma, i.e., the assumption that quantum correlations call for a causal explanation. The paper is divided into two parts. The first, destructive, part provides a critical overview of the enterprise of causally interpreting non-local quantum correlations, with the aim of warning against the temptation of an account of causation claiming to cover such correlations 'for free'. The second, constructive, part introduces the so-called structural explanation (a variety of non-causal explanation that shows how the explanandum is the manifestation of a fundamental structure of the world) and argues that quantum correlations might be explained structurally in the context of an information-theoretic approach to QT.
一方面，将关联自然地解释为因果关系的表现；另一方面，构成上述关联基础的物理学难以适应因果关系的前理论概念的最基本特征。在本文中，我主张摒弃该困境的第一个选项，即量子关联需要因果解释这一假设。本文分为两个部分。第一部分具有破坏性，对因果解释非局域量子关联的尝试进行批判性综述，旨在警示人们不要受那种声称能“免费”涵盖此类关联的因果解释的诱惑。第二部分具有建设性，引入所谓的结构解释（一种非因果解释，它展示了被解释项是世界基本结构的表现形式），并论证在量子理论的信息论方法背景下，量子关联或许可以通过结构来解释。
