ABSTRACT

The debate between proponents and opponents of causal foundationalism has recently surfaced as a disparity between causal structuralism and causal anti-foundationalism in the structural realist camp. The paper outlines and dissolves the problem of disparity for (informational) structural realism. I follow John Collier (also Carl T. Bergstrom and Martin Rosvall) to specify causation in terms of the transmission of information. Unlike them, I built upon the reverse quantum data-processing inequality to show how this approach models causation as a symmetric process at the level of fundamental physics (but not special sciences). I show how this suggestion reduces the disparity about causation to a problem of application to diverse contexts.

摘要

因果基础主义的拥护者与反对者之间的争论最近因结构现实主义者阵营中因果结构主义与因果反基础主义之间的差异而浮出水面。本文概述并解决了（信息性）结构现实主义的悬殊问题。我跟随约翰·科利尔（John Collier）（也是卡尔·T·伯格斯特伦（Carl T. Bergstrom）和马丁·罗斯瓦尔（Martin Rosvall））在信息传递方面指定因果关系。与它们不同，我建立在反向量子数据处理不等式的基础上，以展示这种方法如何将因果关系建模为基本物理学（而不是特殊科学）水平上的对称过程。我展示了这个建议如何减少因果关系对适用于各种情况的问题的差异。