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In the conventional approach to quantum mechanics, indeterminism is an axiom and nonlocality is a theorem. We consider inverting the logical order, making nonlocality an axiom and indeterminism a theorem. Nonlocal “superquantum” correlations, preserving relativistic causality, can violate the CHSH inequality more strongly than any quantum correlations.
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Popescu, S., Rohrlich, D. Quantum nonlocality as an axiom. Found Phys 24, 379–385 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02058098
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