Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement
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Entanglement as the world-making relation : distance from entanglement. / Jaksland, Rasmus.
In: Synthese, Vol. 198, No. 10, 2021, p. 9661-9693.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Entanglement as the world-making relation
T2 - distance from entanglement
AU - Jaksland, Rasmus
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Distance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. Entanglement is interesting since it is consistent even with quantum gravity theories that do not feature space at the fundamental level. The paper thereby defends the metaphysical salience of such non-spatial theories. An account of distance (space) is the predominant problem of empirical adequacy facing entanglement as a world-making relation. A resolution of this obstacle utilizes insights from the Ryu–Takayanagi formula (a holographic relation between entanglement and spacetime) and Susskind and Maldacena’s related ER = EPR conjecture (a relation between bell pairs and wormholes). Together these indicate how distance can be recovered from entanglement and thus carves the way for entanglement fundamentalism.
AB - Distance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. Entanglement is interesting since it is consistent even with quantum gravity theories that do not feature space at the fundamental level. The paper thereby defends the metaphysical salience of such non-spatial theories. An account of distance (space) is the predominant problem of empirical adequacy facing entanglement as a world-making relation. A resolution of this obstacle utilizes insights from the Ryu–Takayanagi formula (a holographic relation between entanglement and spacetime) and Susskind and Maldacena’s related ER = EPR conjecture (a relation between bell pairs and wormholes). Together these indicate how distance can be recovered from entanglement and thus carves the way for entanglement fundamentalism.
KW - Entanglement
KW - Entanglement fundamentalism
KW - Holography
KW - Primitive ontology
KW - Quantum gravity
KW - World-making relation
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-020-02671-7
DO - 10.1007/s11229-020-02671-7
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85085304501
VL - 198
SP - 9661
EP - 9693
JO - Synthese
JF - Synthese
SN - 0039-7857
IS - 10
ER -
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