Notes on Crowther and the 'Interpretation' of Quantum Mechanics (arXiv:2512.14315)
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- Title: Notes on Crowther and the ‘Interpretation’ of Quantum Mechanics (arXiv:2512.14315)
- ArXiv ID: 2512.23721
- Date: 2025-12-18
- Authors: Mikołaj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki
📝 Abstract
We read Karen Crowther's Another 100 Years of Quantum Interpretation? with two practical goals. First, we spell out what she means by "interpretation": an attempt to provide understanding (not just predictions), which may be representationalist or non-representationalist, and which she contrasts with deeper reductive (inter-theoretic) explanation-especially in the quantum-gravity setting. Second, we list twelve points where the paper's physics-facing wording could be sharpened. In our view, several claims are directionally well-motivated but stated more strongly than the underlying physics supports, or they run together distinct notions (e.g. "degrees of freedom," "singularity," and different senses of "locality") that need careful separation. We end by suggesting that the philosophical question is genuinely worthwhile, but the physics should be phrased more cautiously so that heuristic motivation is not mistaken for strict implication.📄 Full Content
Crowther treats interpretations of quantum mechanics as doing at least two jobs: (i) tackling problems commonly thought to attach to the theory (above all, the measurement problem), and (ii) offering understanding of why the theory works and why it has the structure it does (Crowther 2025, 1).
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