Quantum Mechanical Preliminaries

Elio Conte, Andrei Yu. Khrennikov, Joseph P. Zbilut

It is given a preliminary discussion on the ontic nature of quantum states to be intended as potentialities and on the central role of spin to be considered as the basic essence of quantum mechanical reality. The possible fundamental role of potentialities and of spin is evidenced in the framework of physical as well as of biological reality. After such preliminary deepening, using a quantum like scheme delineated on the basis of an algebraic structure, it is given for the first time mathematical demonstration of the transition from potentiality of states to their actualization as basic mechanism of our reality.

Fabien Gatti, Benjamin Lasorne, Hans‐Dieter Meyer +1 more

Christopher G. Timpson

Some simple preliminaries are set out to guide the investigation of what work appeal to the concept of information might do for the foundations of quantum mechanics. One point noted is that if all that appeal to information were to signify in a given approach is the advocacy of an instrumentalist view, then we would not be left with a very interesting, or at least, not a very distinctive, position. Another is the warning that the factivity of ‘information’ (one can’t have the information that p unless it is the case that p) tightly constrains what a direct appeal to the notion of information can do for you in understanding the quantum state.