A reply to Rovelli's response to our "Assessing Relational Quantum Mechanics''

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05817v1
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:36:45 GMT
• Title: A reply to Rovelli's response to our "Assessing Relational Quantum Mechanics''
• Authors: R. Muci\~no, E. Okon and D. Sudarsky
• Abstract summary: We show that our assessment judges RQM on its own terms. We prove false Rovelli's claim that RQM provides a satisfactory, realistic, non-solipsistic description of the world.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In a recent paper, Rovelli responds to our critical assessment of Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM). His main argument is that our assessment lacks merit, because we fail to understand, or cope with, the premises of his theory; instead, he argues, we judge his proposal, blinded by the preconceptions inherent to ``our camp''. Here, we explicitly show that our assessment judges RQM on its own terms, together with the basic requirements of precision, clarity, logical soundness and empirical suitability. Under those circumstances, we prove false Rovelli's claim that RQM provides a satisfactory, realistic, non-solipsistic description of the world. Moreover, his reply serves us to further exhibit the serious problems of the RQM proposal, as well as the failures of its author to understanding the basic conceptual difficulties of quantum theory.

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