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We propose that the universe is nonlocal and that the appropriate worldview for this understanding is nonlocal realism. Currently the worldview of local realism guides and frames the understanding and interpretations of science. Local realism was the worldview employed by Einstein in his relativity theories, but the principles of this paradigm have operated as the guiding framework for the rest of classic science for more than a century. This paper points to incoherencies in local realism and to the violation of its principles by recent experiments and suggests these negative effects have undermined the credibility and legitimacy of this worldview. We offer a more inclusive worldview for the future of science called nonlocal realism. Unlike local realism, the worldview of nonlocal realism encompasses meaning, mind and universal consciousness.

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- Consciousness, Meaning, Locality, Paradigm

The explanatory defense of scientific realism is motivated by science’s success. By contrast, local realists claim that scientific realism must be justified contextually, by considering individually the scientific evidence relevant to assess each theory. I propose that both approaches can be harmonized by appealing to a particularist epistemology. The characterization of local realism as a form of particularism allows us to re-evaluate its relation to the explanatory defense. Local realists reject the explanatory defense as incompatible with the localist stance, but according to particularism, our attribution of knowledge to particular cases is made prima facie, in a way open to the refinement of our epistemic norms. The function of epistemic criteria is not to demonstrate that we have knowledge, but rather to reveal its epistemic nature. One can formulate epistemological criteria by inspecting particular instances of knowledge. And one can evaluate the adequacy of his criteria by adjusting them to his cognitive life in a process of reflective equilibrium. And this is precisely what the explanatory defense of realism does. In this thesis, I develop a particularist defense of scientific realism, showing how a realist stance can be reasonably sustained in the face of the main anti-realist arguments: the pessimistic meta-induction; the problem of unconceived alternatives; and the argument from underdetermination of theory by data.

We propose that the universe is nonlocal and that the appropriate worldview or paradigm for this understanding is nonlocal realism. Currently the worldview of local realism guides and frames the understanding and interpretations of science. Local realism was the worldview employed by Einstein in his relativity theories, but the principles of this paradigm have operated as the guiding framework for the rest of classic science for more than a century. This paper points to incoherencies in local realism and to the violation of its principles by recent experiments; it suggests that these negative effects have undermined the credibility and legitimacy of this worldview. We offer a more inclusive worldview for the future of science called nonlocal realism. Unlike local realism, the worldview of nonlocal realism encompasses meaning, mind and universal consciousness.

- by Andrew Lohrey and +1
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- Consciousness, Meaning, Locality, Paradigm

In this paper, we argue that Bohm's unbroken and undivided totality he called the holomovement, the title he gave to the concept of the self-organizing universe, is more coherently understood when viewed as universal consciousness. Bohm's understanding of consciousness oscillates around being a quality of local minds and the interconnected totality of the holomovement. We suggest such equivocations impose limitations on Bohm's general holistic framework because they import into his model the limiting restrictions of Cartesian separation and are, therefore, incongruous for use within his holistic model of the holomovement. We also argue that the term 'meaning' has a structural and functional agency appropriate to Bohm's model of the holomovement, while also reflecting the living characteristics of this organic totality that is full of meaning.

- by Andrew Lohrey
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- David Bohm, Nonlocal functions of human mind, Local Realism, The Nature of Reality

During last 70 years development of QM was extremely stimulated by permanent
debates on various “no–go” theorems, e.g., von Neumann [], Kochen–
Specker [], Bell [].
The latter one really beats all records on publications, citations, discussions
and misunderstandings, see [] for recent debates. We would like to
note that (as any mathematical theorem) any “no–go” theorem is based on
a number of mathematical assumptions. And adequecy of a mathematical
assumption to physical reality should be the subject of very careful investigation.
For example, J. Bell criticized strongly some assumptions of von
Neumann’s “no–go” theorem (in particular, one–to–one correspondence between
classical variables and quantum observables),

- by Luigi Accardi
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- Bell Hooks, The Chameleon Effect, Local Realism

Why is quantum mathematics (QM) the only science based on probability amplitudes rather than probabilities? A paradigm shift called the Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) posits zero energy waves traveling in the opposite direction as particles, which a particle follows backwards: like a probabilistic guidance system emanating from detectors. Probability amplitudes are the mathematical analog of these elementary rays. Although this proposal might sound like gibberish, that is the hallmark of a paradigm shift. Thomas Kuhn warns that previous paradigm shifts were rejected because they sounded like gibberish. TEW is internally coherent, explains a mountain of empirical data, and resolves insoluble problems of QM. For example, it dispenses with the need for wavefunction collapse because probability decisions are made at the particle source, not the detector. It is the only local realistic theory consistent with the Bell test experiments. That which QM calls â€œnonlocality,â€ TEW calls â€...

- by Jeffrey Boyd
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- Mathematics, Complementarity, Feynman Diagrams, Wavefunction Collapse
- by Andrew Lohrey
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- Consciousness, Meaning, Locality, Paradigm
- by Stuart Mirell
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- Physics, Quantum Physics, Modern physics, Local Realism

In this article we present a local hidden variables model for all experiments involving photon pairs produced in parametric down conversion, based on the Wigner representation of the radiation field. A modification of the standard quantum theory of detection is made in order to give a local realistic explanation of the counting rates in photodetectors. This model involves the existence of a real zeropoint field, such that the vacumm level of radiation lies below the threshold of the detectors.

- by Alberto Casado
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- Mathematics, Physics, Quantum Physics, Key words

Non-locality and uncertainty of the quantum theory was a matter of huge debate for a very long time. Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen introduced local realism which was more like a pre-deterministic idea. It said that the particles that are found in certain quantum states are the one which was in that state from the beginning. Later on J.Bell did an experiment and found out that the hypothesis of EPR was rather wrong. Though the idea of local realism was wrong it motivated many people to look from different perspectives. There are two major questions raised by the local realism on the quantum mechanics one is known as the locality loophole and the other one is detection loophole. In this paper, I have discussed about the Bell's inequalities and how it violates the idea of local realism, CHSH inequalities, and also the efficiency required by the detectors to close the detection loophole.