I want to just try to phrase my question one more time (wish I could delete the old one). Here's an instance of the kind of argument I'm thinking of (just an example; I've seen many, many like this).
My question is, in what sense is it the case that there is a "true" value for correlations that...
Thank you for responding. I've heard of the idea that the Bohm interpretation counts as "superdeterminist" under a certain technical definition, but that it avoids having to explain things using conspiracies and fine-tuning because it's non-local. That's what you mean you accept by saying...
Indeed. It's unscientific in several ways, actually:
1. Essentially says Nature is fine-tuned specifically so we get an incorrect picture of the world
2. Against the spirit of scientific enterprise due to being (imo) an ad-hoc hypothesis motivated by wanting to avoid hearing what Nature is very...
Finally rephrased what I was trying to ask; this question is for stevendaryl and/or anyone else who might be able to help: My misunderstanding of "conspiracy" was that the term referred to the fact that "superdeterminism" is formulated essentially to say the universe looks as if it conspires to...
On second thought I'm not so sure this argument goes through. My counterargument is probably wrong, but it seems like this assumes that it would actually be possible to freely choose that choice of experimental setup -- "They can decide which measurement to perform based on the number of new...
Ah, I didn't know of that way of distinguishing the two (and also a good explanation of what "conspiracy" means.) I thought if superdeterminism was actually "super" relative to determinism in any way it was that it negated even deterministic chaos / pseudorandomness in the context of Bell test...
Thank you for answering!
I'm realizing what I was confused about above, I think, and I think I'm going to rephrase one of my questions into something coherent after I sleep. Probability can be confusing...
To be clear: I don't believe it's a possibility. It's not a concept I believe should be seriously considered at all. I don't think it's desirable to find a "loophole" to Bell's theorem to "save" local realism. I don't think it's a promising research program. I'm just trying to figure out what...
I did that before posting! the other threads on this site were largely helpful, they're where most of my actual understanding on it comes from, but I'm still confused about some things. I'll check again to see if there's answers to what I'm asking in the other threads, though
(and I'm sorry...
Hi. I'm not a physicist, but I’m intrigued by Bell's theorem and I've been stumbling with "superdeterminism." My understanding of the concept is that everything is not just predetermined, but the initial conditions of the universe are fine-tuned and "conspire" so choices of which versions of...