The metaphysics of decoherence
arXiv:2110.04786 · doi:10.1007/s10670-021-00469-8
Abstract
The paper investigates the type of realism that best suits the framework of decoherence taken at face value without postulating a plurality of worlds, or additional hidden variables, or non-unitary dynamical mechanisms. It is argued that this reading of decoherence leads to an extremely radical type of perspectival realism, especially when cosmological decoherence is considered.
arXiv comment30 pages, forthcoming in Erkenntnis
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