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A unified interpretation of probability
Louis Vervoort
In this article I revisit the frequency interpretation of probability of von Mises, and argue that it contains the key elements of any coherent interpretation of scientific probabi…
Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?
Louis Vervoort, Vitaly Nikolaev
We propose a test for abstract causal reasoning in AI, based on scholarship in the philosophy of causation, in particular on the neuron diagrams popularized by D. Lewis. We illustr…
A criterion for Artificial General Intelligence: hypothetic-deductive reasoning, tested on ChatGPT
Louis Vervoort, Vitaliy Mizyakov, Anastasia Ugleva
We argue that a key reasoning skill that any advanced AI, say GPT-4, should master in order to qualify as 'thinking machine', or AGI, is hypothetic-deductive reasoning. Problem-sol…
A platform for investigating Bell correlations in pilot-wave hydrodynamics
Konstantinos Papatryfonos, Louis Vervoort, André Nachbin +2
Since its discovery in 2005, the hydrodynamic pilot-wave system has provided a concrete macroscopic realization of wave-particle duality and concomitant classical analogs of a grow…
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive
Vitaly Nikolaev, Louis Vervoort
We attempt to make superdeterminism more intuitive, notably by simulating a deterministic model system, a billiard game. In this system an initial 'bang' correlates all events, jus…
Probability theory as a physical theory points to superdeterminism
Louis Vervoort
Probability theory as a physical theory is, in a sense, the most general physics theory available, more encompassing than relativity theory and quantum mechanics, which comply with…
Are Hidden-Variable Theories for Pilot-Wave Systems Possible ?
Louis Vervoort
Recently it was shown that certain fluid-mechanical 'pilot-wave' systems can strikingly mimic a range of quantum properties, including single particle diffraction and interference,…
Comment on "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometers"
Louis Vervoort
In a recent article Hensen et al. [Nature 526, 682 (2015)] report on a sophisticated Bell experiment, simultaneously closing, for the first time, loopholes for local hidden-variabl…
Comment on "Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Bell's Theorem with Entangled Photons"
Louis Vervoort
In a recent article Giustina et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250401 (2015)] report on an advanced Bell experiment, simultaneously closing loopholes for local hidden-variable theories…
No-Go Theorems Face Background-based Theories for Quantum Mechanics
Louis Vervoort
Recent experiments have shown that certain fluid-mechanical systems, namely oil droplets bouncing on oil films, can mimic a wide range of quantum phenomena, including double-slit i…
Does Chance Hide Necessity ? A Reevaluation of the Debate 'Determinism - Indeterminism' in the Light of Quantum Mechanics and Probability Theory
Louis Vervoort
In this PhD thesis the ancient question of determinism ('Does every event have a cause ?') will be re-examined. In the philosophy of science and physics communities the orthodox po…
Hidden Variable Theories: Arguments for a Paradigm Shift
Louis Vervoort
Usually the 'hidden variables' of Bell's theorem are supposed to describe the pair of Bell particles. Here a semantic shift is proposed, namely to attach the hidden variables to a…
Bell's Theorem: Two Neglected Solutions
Louis Vervoort
Bell's theorem admits several interpretations or 'solutions', the standard interpretation being 'indeterminism', a next one 'nonlocality'. In this article two further solutions are…
The interpretation of quantum mechanics and of probability: Identical role of the 'observer'
Louis Vervoort
The aim of the article is to argue that the interpretations of quantum mechanics and of probability are much closer than usually thought. Indeed, a detailed analysis of the concept…
A detailed interpretation of probability, and its link with quantum mechanics
Louis Vervoort
In the following we revisit the frequency interpretation of probability of Richard von Mises, in order to bring the essential implicit notions in focus. Following von Mises, we arg…
Bell's Theorem and Nonlinear Systems
Louis Vervoort
For all Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-type experiments on deterministic systems the Bell inequality holds, unless non-local interactions exist between certain parts of the setup. Here we…