🧵 Quantum mechanics supposedly arising from a maximization of "variety"

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:07:39 UTC No. 16083893

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02938.pdf
The idea of this paper is that if you assume similar systems interact nonlocally in a way that ensures large "variety," which is roughly the ability to tell different states apart, quantum mechanics just falls out, schroedinger equation and all. Measurements seem nondeterministic because systems are interacting with every other similar system, and larger systems get closer to classical behavior because there aren't as many similar systems to interact with.

I'm not qualified to evaluate the math, but it's interesting to see something like this that claims to derive quantum mechanics from philosophical principles (namely Leibniz and his monads) that doesn't obviously stink of crackpottery (my nose probably just isn't sensitive enough).
Thoughts? There are proposed experimental consequences, do they line up with or get contradicted by anything we know?