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SUMMARY:Owen Maroney (Oxford): How epistemic can a quantum state be?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Owen Maroney (Oxford)\n\n\nTime: 5:15pm - 6:45pm\n\n\n\nTitle: How epistemic can a quantum state be?\n\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe "psi-epistemic" view is that the quantum state does not represent a state of the world; but a state of knowledge about the world.  It draws its motivation; in part; from the observation of qualitative similarities between characteristic properties of non-orthogonal quantum wave functions and between overlapping classical probability distributions. \n\nIt might be suggested that this gives a natural explanation for these properties; which seem puzzling for the alternative "psi-ontic" view. However; looking at the two such similarities; quantum state overlap and quantum state discrimination; it will be shown that the psi-epistemic view cannot account for these values shown by quantum theory; and must instead rely on the same kind of explanations as the "psi-ontic" view. \n\n
URL:http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/owen-maroney-oxford-how-epistemic-can-a-quantum-state-be/
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