Quantum Information in the Foundational and Philosophical Debates About Quantum Theory

Researches in the field of quantum information and quantum computation have naturally stimulated new debates about foundational and philosophical problems of quantum theory. “Information interpretations” according to which quantum theory should be mainly regarded as a “revolutionary information theory” have been opposed to more traditional “realistic” assumptions, according to which the pure states of the quantumtheoretic formalism shall always “mirror” objective properties of physical systems that exist (or may exist) in the real world. We analyze some different point of views that have been proposed and discussed in these debates.

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