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Quantum Machine and Semantic Realism Approach: a Unified Model

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The Geneva–Brussels approach to quantum mechanics (QM) and the semantic realism (SR) nonstandard interpretation of QM exhibit some common features and some deep conceptual differences. We discuss in this paper two elementary models provided in the two approaches as intuitive supports to general reasonings and as a proof of consistency of general assumptions, and show that Aerts’ quantum machine can be embodied into a macroscopic version of the microscopic SR model, overcoming the seeming incompatibility between the two models. This result provides some hints for the construction of a unified perspective in which the two approaches can be properly placed.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Lecce, 73100, Italy

    Claudio Garola & Sandro Sozzo

  2. Instytut Matematyki, Uniwersytet Gdański, Gdańsk, 80-952, Poland

    Jarosław Pykacz

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Garola, C., Pykacz, J. & Sozzo, S. Quantum Machine and Semantic Realism Approach: a Unified Model. Found Phys 36, 862–882 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9046-z

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