David Lewis was a philosopher proponent of Humeanism. He was famous for his support of the plurality of possible worlds, which have resonated with those who sympathize with the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He said once: "anything can coexist with anything else, at least provided they occupy distinct spatiotemporal positions. Likewise, anything can fail to coexist with anything else". That's his so called _principle of recombination_.
From his entry in Wikipedia: "Combined with the assumption that reality consists on the most fundamental level of nothing but a spatio-temporal distribution of local natural properties, this thesis is known as 'Humean supervenience'. It states that laws of nature and causal relations merely supervene on this distribution of local natural properties".
Curiously, for some people, this last definition (Humean supervenience)
seems to be in conflict with quantum entanglement (QE)! Thay argue that
QE precisely says that laws of nature don't just supervene (are a consequence) from the distribution of local natural properties in spacetime, because QE seems to "break" the notion of locality. For others, Humean supervenience can still be saved. There's debate around.
#philosophy #physics
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