Recent content by iste

Thought these papers might be relevant to realist perspective on Wogner friend: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/7/903 Note how equation (12) and (34) is more or less the same as the kind of (in)divisibility condition you see in Barandes' papers...

Why does the configuration need to jump between branches? I haven't really been following this topic.

Where does he talk about the even more general stochastic process? In that paper says he changes from the squiggly X to C because you can't define velocities fir a stochastic system. Honestly, you're paying too much attention to the word "configuration" when it doesn't make a difference wrt the...

But the generalized stochastic process exists! Again, the stochastic-quantum correspondence is fully general and can be applied to fields outside of physics. For me, the question is : "what does the indivisible stochastic process represent in quantum physics?" and that if getting an unambiguous...

Sure, but then you could postulate anything. You can talk about physical systems that don't exist, you can talk about macroeconomics, you can talk about biology, psychology. There are conceivably a huge number of disparate models and systems that may evince behaviors of a quantum system to some...

My criticism is that if you take something like spin and translate it into a generalized stochastic process, you get an evolving physical system sampling configurations with certain probabilities that may not actually make sense ontologically, in which case the interpretation would be wrong and...

I have to clarify that the ontological ambiguity with regard to the indivisible stochastic process has nothing to do with configuration space. Neither did I envision the stochastic process in terms of measurement outcomes - my envisioning is counterfactual representation of physical...

Again, the point is that in other measurement bases, the stochastic-quantum correspondence results in generalized stochastic processes that are difficult to interpret in terms of some freely-evolving system imo. Sure, it may be plausible in a certain case; but if that is not general, then to me...

I am taking this into account though. If there are no preferred measurement bases in QM then the correspondence will apply the same in all of them and may result in representations of physical systems that are nonetheless difficult to interpret in terms of the system when it is not being...

I think maybe the issue is that I haven't articulated what I mean by instrumentalism and maybe the word is misleading. When I say instrumentalist, I still mean that the configuration space or whatever sample space you are using for your generalized stochastic stochastic system has a literal...

I just can't see a satisfyingly coherent, strictly concrete physical perspective when the stochastic-quantum correspondence is general enough, and the quantum system that any generalized stochastic system corresponds to is ambiguous enough to think othereise. Imo, the stochastic process need not...

No, my objection is that with regard to the generalized stochastic process, "configuration space" is just a label for a generic sample space. He is using that label not because it is inherent to the stochastic-correspondence but because of the intention to produce a physical theory. Well just...

Its just the sample space of the stochastic process. It doesn't matter what the 'ontological content' of the sample space, the stochastic -quantum correspondence will be able to provide a quantum description of its behavior as long as the stochastic process is generically indivisible. Of...

Its bidirectional so it doesn't matter. If your indivisible system exactly describes regular quantum theory then it is describing something with an ambiguous ontology. Barandes' is just using "configuration" as his word to describe the sample space because when he translates it to a quantum...

It seems pretty clear to me that in the context of a stochastic process, the "configuration" is just what the sample space represents, but the notion of a generalized stochastic system isn't required to represent any specific kind of physical configuration space. No stochastic process is...