No Cause for Concern: Indefinite Causal Ordering / Tool for Understanding Entanglement: Conversation

Moderated Conversation with Yemima Ben-Menahem, Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Elise Crull. Understanding the sorts of explanations and inferences that causal processes countenance is of course of great interest to philosophers and physicists (among others).  But what can be said about physical processes that fail to exhibit classical causal structure?  Indefinite causal ordering among events made possible by quantum correlations has become a fruitful arena of study recently, yielding new insights for quantum computing and communication, approaches to quantum gravity, and even for foundational issues in quantum mechanics.  Professor Elise Crull focuses on how indefinite causal ordering may provide deeper understanding regarding the central property of quantum mechanics:  entanglement.   She then considers what this case study might imply regarding traditional philosophical views of cause as a relation between independent events.

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