My account of the paper’s argument is likely to be quite inaccurate and incomplete, so it’s best to aim critiques at the paper itself. Does Bohmian interpretation count as one of the standard ones?
As far as I can tell, the conservation of algorithmic information was the big speculative thing in the paper. It’s not ontologically basic woo, as in mental intentions irreducible to basic physics, but I”m guessing it’s not standard QM either.
Bohm is one of the standard interpretations. It’s more complex than MWI (the wave function, plus an independent “pilot wave” to make only the visible part of the wavefunction “real”), and it involves faster-than-light time travel, but is supposed to prevent said time travel and FTL from ever allowing information to be communicated thusly.
Gary Drescher has a section in his book, Good and Real, in which he presents the arguments for MWI and notes the frequency with which the other interpretations are used to justify woo (FTL and time travel that conveniently never affect us, mysterious forces that coincidentally annihilate the rest of the wave function beyond what we can see, claims of consciousness as having magical powers, etc).
My account of the paper’s argument is likely to be quite inaccurate and incomplete, so it’s best to aim critiques at the paper itself. Does Bohmian interpretation count as one of the standard ones?
As far as I can tell, the conservation of algorithmic information was the big speculative thing in the paper. It’s not ontologically basic woo, as in mental intentions irreducible to basic physics, but I”m guessing it’s not standard QM either.
Bohm is one of the standard interpretations. It’s more complex than MWI (the wave function, plus an independent “pilot wave” to make only the visible part of the wavefunction “real”), and it involves faster-than-light time travel, but is supposed to prevent said time travel and FTL from ever allowing information to be communicated thusly.
Gary Drescher has a section in his book, Good and Real, in which he presents the arguments for MWI and notes the frequency with which the other interpretations are used to justify woo (FTL and time travel that conveniently never affect us, mysterious forces that coincidentally annihilate the rest of the wave function beyond what we can see, claims of consciousness as having magical powers, etc).