Spacetime emergence in quantum gravity: functionalism and the hard problem.

Spacetime functionalism is the view that spacetime is a functional structure implemented by a more fundamental ontology. Lam and Wüthrich have recently argued that spacetime functionalism helps to solve the epistemological problem of empirical coherence in quantum gravity and suggested that it also...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 2; pp. 371 - 394
Autor principal: Le Bihan, Baptiste
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021 Supplement 2
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