The wavefunction does have plenty of internal structure, that structure just doesn’t line up neatly with space. It won’t just be a linear chain, and it will be made of “parts”, but those parts won’t necessarily line up neatly with macroscopic observations/objects.
And that’s fine—figuring out how to do ontology mapping between the low-level “parts” and the high-level “parts” is a central piece of the problem. Not being able to directly observe variables in the low-level causal diagram is part of that. If we want e.g. a theory of abstraction, then these issues are perfect use-cases.
The wavefunction does have plenty of internal structure, that structure just doesn’t line up neatly with space. It won’t just be a linear chain, and it will be made of “parts”, but those parts won’t necessarily line up neatly with macroscopic observations/objects.
And that’s fine—figuring out how to do ontology mapping between the low-level “parts” and the high-level “parts” is a central piece of the problem. Not being able to directly observe variables in the low-level causal diagram is part of that. If we want e.g. a theory of abstraction, then these issues are perfect use-cases.
I know this was 3 years ago, but was this disagreement resolved, maybe offline?
I don’t think we’ve talked about it since then.