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The recently proposed transactional and related differential interpretations of quantum mechanics are given a variational formulation. It seems that recurring controversies surrounding the interpretational question in early quantum mechanics, of whether or not a particle knows its environment, arose from the disharmony between the teleological flavor of the integral formulation of quantum transitions and the causal descriptive order in the differential formulation of wave mechanics.
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Hokkyo, N. Variational formulation of transactional and related interpretations of quantum mechanics. Found Phys Lett 1, 293–299 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690070
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