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Quantum contextuality as a topological property, and the ontology of potentiality

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Authors: Marek Woszczek

Year

2020

Paper ID

5325

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Peer-reviewed

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Quantum contextuality and its ontological meaning are very controversial issues, and they relate to other problems concerning the foundations of quantum theory. I address this controversy and stress the fact that contextuality is a universal topological property of quantum processes, which conflicts with the basic metaphysical assumption of the definiteness of being. I discuss the consequences of this fact and argue that generic quantum potentiality as a real physical indefiniteness has nothing in common with the classical notions of possibility and counterfactuality, and that also it reverses, in a way, the classical mirror-like relation between actuality and definite possibility.

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  • Quantum contextuality and its ontological meaning are very controversial issues, and they relate to other problems concerning the foundations of quantum theory.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.69.504 [2] Publisher https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.69.504

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