Non-separability, Individuation, and Space-Time
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Following a suggestion of David Bohm’s, I will explore the possibility that phenomena associated with entanglement and complementarity in quantum mechanics intimate a fundamentally non-spatiotemporal ordering to reality by looking at low-dimensional examples of systems that reproduce the relevant phenomena. I argue that this is a relatively unexplored path to explaining quantum correlations and give some philosophical motivation.
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