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Retrocausality – what would it take?

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Some writers argue that retrocausality offers an attractive loophole in Bell’s Theorem, allowing an explanation of EPR -Bell correlations without ‘spooky action-at-a-distance’. This idea originated more than a decade before Bell’s famous result, when de Broglie’s student, Olivier Costa de Beauregard, first proposed that retrocausality plays a role in EPR contexts. The proposal is difficult to assess, because there has been little work on the general question of what a world with retrocausality would ‘look like’ – what kinds of considerations, if any, would properly lead to the conclusion that we do live in such a world. In this talk I discuss these general issues, with the aim of bringing the more specific question as to whether quantum theory implies retrocausality into sharper focus than has hitherto been possible.

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