On the strangeness of quantum mechanics

TL;DR

This paper discusses the fundamental strangeness of quantum mechanics, exploring its key phenomena and interpretative challenges, especially focusing on Bell's inequalities and the logical necessity of quantum mechanics for realism.

Contribution

It analyzes the philosophical implications of quantum phenomena and proposes a logical perspective that preserves realism while acknowledging quantum strangeness.

Findings

Quantum entanglement and non-locality challenge classical realism.

Bell's inequalities serve as a measure of quantum strangeness.

Quantum mechanics can be interpreted as a logical necessity for a strong form of realism.

Abstract

The extravagances of quantum mechanics never fail to enrich daily the debate around natural philosophy. Entanglement, non-locality, collapse, many worlds, many minds, and subjectivism have challenged generations of thinkers. Its approach can perhaps be placed in the stream of quantum logic, in which the "strangeness" of quantum mechanics is "measured" through the violation of Bell's inequalities and, from there, attempts an interpretative path that preserves realism yet ends up overturning it, restating the fundamental mechanisms of QM as a logical necessity for a strong realism.