How Humean is Bohumianism?
Tomasz Bigaj, Antonio Vassallo

TL;DR
This paper critically examines whether Bohmian mechanics truly upholds the Humean supervenience principle, arguing that it may violate a stronger form of supervenience and questioning the fundamental existence of complex systems.
Contribution
It offers a philosophical critique of Bohmian mechanics' compatibility with Humean supervenience, introducing the concept of Strong Supervenience and analyzing its implications.
Findings
Bohmian mechanics may violate Strong Supervenience.
Treating complex systems as mere descriptions of particles can defend Bohumianism.
The paper discusses pros and cons of reducing systems to particle configurations.
Abstract
An important part of the influential Humean doctrine in philosophy is the supervenience principle (sometimes referred to as the principle of separability). This principle asserts that the complete state of the world supervenes on the intrinsic properties of its most fundamental components and their spatiotemporal relations (the so-called Humean mosaic). There are well-known arguments in the literature purporting to show that in quantum mechanics the Humean supervenience principle is violated, due to the existence of entangled states. Recently, however, arguments have been presented to the effect that the supervenience principle can be defended in Bohmian mechanics. The key element of this strategy lies in the observation that according to Bohmian mechanics the fundamental facts about particles are facts about their spatial locations, and moreover, for any proper subsystem of the world…
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