Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Uh I also argued in the first part that the perf perfection of those correlations isn't.
The point you could relax from perfect correlations to high correlations in otherwise similar circumstances and make little adjustments to the argument, and the argument would still go through, right?
You'd still have the argument that
If you rule out spooky action at a distance, then the quantum mechanical description is not complete, which is the main point that they were trying to make.
Just to again, I had this last time, but just to repeat it, because he always says things in the right way.
Here's Bell talking about the logic of the EPR argument.
It is important to note.
that to the limited degree to which determinism plays a role in the EPR argument, it is not assumed but inferred.
What is held sacred is the principle of local causality or no action at a distance.
Of course, mere correlation between distant events does not imply action at a distance.
But only, you know, it only implies, needs to imply that there's a correlation between the signals reaching the two places.
These signals, in the idealized example of Boehm, which we're going to talk about in a minute, must be sufficient to determine whether the particles go up or down.
So there you get an inference of determinism.
For any residual undetermin uh undeterminism could only spoil the perfect correlation.
It is remarkably difficult to get this point across that determinism is not a presupposition of the analysis.
There is a widespread and erroneous conviction that for Einstein, determinism was always the sacred principle.
The quotability of his famous God does not play dice has not helped in this respect among those who had great difficultying this Einstein position was born.
And then you there's some in the first part I gave, went on with the quote.
But I I'm not gonna go on with it here.
So where does this locality assumption, this no action at a distance assumption come into the EPR argument?
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