Philosophical foundations of interpretations of quantum mechanics

TL;DR

This paper explores the philosophical reasons behind the diversity of quantum mechanics interpretations, proposing a classification based on their foundational differences and suggesting potential reconciliation in broader theories.

Contribution

It identifies the philosophical incompatibilities causing interpretative diversity and offers a classification scheme, also showing how these foundations can be integrated in more general theories.

Findings

Interpretations are disconnected from classical physics by continuity issues

Incompatibility of philosophical foundations hinders a unified worldview

Reconciliation of foundations is possible in broader theoretical frameworks

Abstract

It is demonstrated that the reason for the diversity of interpretations of quantum mechanics is that they are not connected by continuity relations with classical physics, and also the reason is the impossibility of operationalist definition of the vector of state. The problem lies in the incompatibility of the philosophical foundations of interpretations, which results in the difficulty of building a unified picture of the world. To solve the problem, we identify general philosophical foundation of interpretations of quantum mechanics and built their classification. We also show that in more general theories, the part of which is quantum mechanics, it is possible to integrate (reconcile) the philosophical foundations of interpretations.