Beliebiger Eintrag,
How Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation is realist and solves the measurement problem
(2023)cite arxiv:2308.00814Comment: 22 pages.
Zusammenfassung
The field of interpretation of quantum mechanics emerged in an attempt to
solve the measurement problem. This turned on the perception that Niels Bohr
avoided addressing the measurement problem by taking an instrumentalist view of
quantum mechanics. I argue that this view is mistaken and Bohr's interpretation
of quantum mechanics is realist. Moreover, Bohr's interpretation, which is
different from textbook quantum mechanics (which is due more to Von Neumann and
Paul Dirac), succeeds in solving the measurement problem. While the claim that
Bohr dissolves the measurement problem within the limits of the epistemological
framework he assumes has been made by a few authors, rarely has the case been
made that Bohr's project unambiguously and completely overcomes the measurement
problem. I make the strong case that Bohr eliminated the measurement problem
altogether. For this, I put forward two new postulates through which to make
sense of Bohr's interpretation. The article thus seeks to single out Bohr's
interpretation from the various views that go together under the umbrella of
orthodox quantum mechanics, and which have been traditionally considered
susceptible to the measurement problem. It shows that Bohr's interpretation
should be classified along with those like hidden variable theories, collapse
models, modal interpretations etc., which offer a solution to the measurement
problem and are committed to a realist ontology.
