arXiv Open Access 2018

Epistemic Horizons and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Jochen Szangolies
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In-principle restrictions on the amount of information that can be gathered about a system have been proposed as a foundational principle in several recent reconstructions of the formalism of quantum mechanics. However, it seems unclear precisely why one should be thus restricted. We investigate the notion of paradoxical self-reference as a possible origin of such epistemic horizons by means of a fixed-point theorem in Cartesian closed categories due to F. W. Lawvere that illuminates and unifies the different perspectives on self-reference.

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Jochen Szangolies

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Szangolies, J. (2018). Epistemic Horizons and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10668

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