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Joaquin Trujillo
A Phenomenological Reading of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Volume 16 (2020), Numéro 6, p. 1-38
https://doi.org/10.25518/1782-2041.1229
Abstract: The articles provides a phenomenological reading of the Many- Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics and its answer to the measurement problem, or the question of “why only one of a wave function’s probable values is observed when the system is measured.” Transcendental- phenomenological and hermeneutic-phenomenological approaches are em- ployed. The project comprises four parts. Parts one and two review MWI and the standard (Copenhagen) interpretation of quantum mechanics. Part three re- views the phenomenologies. Part four deconstructs the hermeneutics of MWI. It agrees with the confidence the theory derives from its (1) unforgiving ap- propriation of the Schrödinger equation and (2) association of branching uni- verses with the evolution of the wave function insofar as that understanding comes from the formalism itself. Part four also reveals the hermeneutical short- comings of the standard interpretation
Mots-clefs: quantum mechanics.
