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Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW
1Insitut Néel (CNRS, Grenoble), Chair of Excellence in Philosophy of Quantum Physics (UGA), 25 Avenue Des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
The Mass Density approach to GRW (GRWM for short) has been widely discussed in the quantum foundations literature. A crucial feature of GRWM is the introduction of a Criterion of Accessibility for mass, which allows to explain the determinacy of experimental outcomes thus also addressing the tails problem of GRW. However, the Criterion of Accessibility leaves the ontological meaning of the non-accessible portion of mass utterly unexplained. In this paper I discuss two viable approaches to non-accessible mass, which I call anti-realist and realist, and will defend the latter. First, I show that the anti-realist approach suffers from various objections. Second, I develop an account of non-accessible mass density states as objectively indeterminate states of affairs.
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