Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events (Record no. 63935)
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| International Standard Book Number | /doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9783319708157 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9783319708140 |
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| Standard number or code | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | dc |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Karl Svozil |
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| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Springer Nature |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 electronic resource (219 p.) |
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| Terms governing access | Open Access |
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| Standardized terminology for access restriction | Unrestricted online access |
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| Summary, etc. | This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: are these limitations reflected by our models? Under what circumstances does chance kick in? Is chance in physics merely epistemic? In other words, do we simply not know enough, or use too crude levels of description for our predictions? Or are certain events "truly", that is, irreducibly, random? The book tries to answer some of these questions by introducing intrinsic, embedded observers and provable unknowns; that is, observables and procedures which are certified (relative to the assumptions) to be unknowable or undoable. A (somewhat iconoclastic) review of quantum mechanics is presented which is inspired by quantum logic. Postulated quantum (un-)knowables are reviewed. More exotic unknowns originate in the assumption of classical continua, and in finite automata and generalized urn models, which mimic complementarity and yet maintain value definiteness. Traditional conceptions of free will, miracles and dualistic interfaces are based on gaps in an otherwise deterministic universe. |
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| Text of note | OpenAIRE |
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| Language note | English |
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| Uncontrolled term | Self-reflexive knowledge |
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| Uncontrolled term | Physical chaos |
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| Uncontrolled term | Physical random number generators |
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| Uncontrolled term | Irreducible randomness |
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| Uncontrolled term | Randomness in physics |
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| Uncontrolled term | Physical indeterminism |
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| Uncontrolled term | Acausality in physics |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-70815-7</a> |
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