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Journal of Guizhou University of Technology

Analyze the Philosophical Problem in Quantum Information

Pan Ping

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Quantum information represents the latest development of the quantum physics and the poten- tial development direction.It gives us new enlightenment in the theoretical contents,the construction system,the existing motion form and the operation.Based on the analysis of the philosophical problem in quantum information,this article proposes that quantum information provides a new worldview.

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Quantum information is a new forefront inter-discipline which combines information science with quantum physics. It has the unique characteristics of entanglement and non-localized connection with which the classical information science can抰 compare. This poses a new problem to philosophy. On the basis of the foundation of information theory by science and technology, the article redefines information from the philosophical angle, thinking information is an objective existence in the form of non-substance with movement as its presentation. The article explains the three kinds of intrinsic unitarity of quantum information: the unitarity between information existence and quantum existence, the unitarity between determinism and non-determinism, the unitarity between locality and non-locality.
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The principle aim of this dissertation is to investigate the philosophical application of quantum information theory to interpretational issues regarding the theory of quantum mechanics. Recently, quantum information theory has emerged as a potential source for such an interpretation. The main question with which this dissertation will be concerned is whether or not an information-theoretic interpretation can serve as a conceptually acceptable interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will be argued that some of the more obvious approaches - that quantum information theory shows us that ultimately the world is made of information, and quantum Bayesianism - fail as philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. However, the information-theoretic approach of Clifton, Bub, and Halvorson introduces Einstein's distinction between principle theories and constructive theories, arguing that quantum mechanics is best understood as an information-theoretic principle theory. While I argue that this particular approach fails, it does offer a viable new philosophical role for information theory. Specifically, an investigation of interpretationally successful principle theories such as Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, and general relativity, shows that the particular principles employed are necessary as constitutive elements of a framework which partially defines the basic explanatory concepts of space, time, and motion. Without such constitutive principles as preconditions for empirical meaning, scientific progress is hampered. It is argued that the philosophical issues in quantum mechanics stem from an analogous conceptual crisis. On the basis of this comparison, the best strategy for resolving these problems is to apply a similar sort of conceptual analysis to quantum mechanics so as to provide an appropriate set of constitutive principles clarifying the conceptual issues at stake. It is further argued that quantum information theory is ideally placed as a novel conceptual framework from which to conduct this analysis.
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