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The causal problem of entanglement

Paul M. Näger

pp. 1127-1155

Abstrakt

This paper expounds that besides the well-known spatio-temporal problem there is a causal problem of entanglement: even when one neglects spatio-temporal constraints, the peculiar statistics of EPR/B experiment is inconsistent with usual principles of causal explanation as stated by the theory of causal Bayes nets. The conflict amounts to a dilemma that either there are uncaused correlations (violating the causal Markov condition) or there are caused independences (violating the causal faithfulness condition). I argue that the central ideas of causal explanations can be saved if one accepts the latter horn and explains the unfaithful independences by a stable fine-tuning of the causal parameters.

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Gebharter Alexander, Schurz Gerhard (2016) Causation, probability, and truth. Synthese 193 (4).

Seiten: 1127-1155

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0668-6

Referenz:

Näger Paul M. (2016) „The causal problem of entanglement“. Synthese 193 (4), 1127–1155.