I agree – but why then do we need non-local hidden variables instead of the wave function itself? Or do you think you can avoid Many Worlds?

Ruth, I don’t intend here to discuss the transactional interpretation, but the ´´result of a collapse´´ in the usual sense is a new global wave function, and hence still kinematically non-local. Only certain macroscopic aspects of this state may be approximately local, and even this is so just by construction: the collapse is usually defined to mi…[Read more]

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Much of Christopher Timpson’s paper is ´´philological´´ or historical and about the different or changing use of concepts and words. This is quite intersting and potentially important, but not what I am mainly interested in. However, in the context of Everett, the concept of (non)locality seems to be quite clear to me. If you accept the ontic…[Read more]