Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
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What role does it play logically?
Well, it plays a role when you look at the reality criterion and it says if you can predict with certainty without any way disturbing a system how the system will behave, then you have an element of reality.
How do you know you're not disturbing the system, right?
You you do something to make the prediction.
What assures you that what you do didn't in fact disturb the system, right?
And it's there that what Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen simply tacitly assume, I mean, they don't make a big deal of it, they think it's just something you wouldn't question, is that
separating Alice and Bob's labs far apart from each other, arbitrarily far apart, running the experiments at what we call space-like separation so that not even light could get from one to the other in the course of the experiments, that ought to be sufficient.
to assure you don't have a disturbance, that nothing Alice does or nothing that happens in her lab disturbs Bob's situation.
Nothing that Bob does or anything that happens in Bob's lab disturbs Alice's situation.
That's where the locality assumption plays a role in the logic of EPR.
And if you grant them that.
The argument goes through.
Right.
So the claim is the argument is perfect logically if you grant them no what no spooky action at a distance.
Uh now this is again what I'm what I'm saying here, right?
What happens in Bob's lab should not physically depend in any way on what Alice decides to do in her lab, uh, and vice versa.
And if there's some especially indeterministic
interaction in Alice's lab that could come out different ways, then which way it actually comes out should not have any influence on Bob's lab, right?
How could that information about how it came out, supposing it was indeterministic, supposing there were different possibilities it could have occurred,
How could the information about which one did occur get to Bob in time?
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