Conclusion

Abstract

The major failings of many would-be interpretations of quantum mechanics are: (1) they confuse a cause with its effects (example: the knowledge interpretation’s assumption that changes in knowledge cause the wave function to change); (2) they confuse the map with the territory (example: Kastner’s assumption in the Possibilist Transactional Interpretation that the wave function resides in the Hilbert-space map of correlations (Kastner, The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility, 2012, [1])); and (3) they are designed to explain one particular problem while ignoring all others interpretational problems, which we listed in Sect. 2.6 (example: the decoherence interpretation’s explanation of wave function collapse that ignores the problem of nonlocality). As we have seen, the Transactional Interpretation avoids all of these pitfalls while presenting a comprehensive account of all of the interpretational problems of quantum mechanics .