Reality without realism: on the ontological and epistemological architecture of quantum mechanics (Q892930)

``First, the article considers the nature of quantum reality (the reality responsible for quantum phenomena) and the concept of realism (our ability to represent this reality) in quantum theory, in conjunction with the roles of locality, causality, and probability and statistics there. Second, it offers two interpretations of quantum mechanics, developed by the authors of this article, the second of which is also a different (from quantum mechanics) theory of quantum phenomena. Both of these interpretations are statistical. The first interpretation, by A. Plotnitsky, ``the statistical Copenhagen interpretation'', is nonrealistic, insofar as the description or even conception of the nature of quantum objects and processes is precluded. The second, by A.\ Khrennikov, is ultimately realistic, because it assumes that the quantum-mechanical level of reality is underlained by a deeper level of reality, described, in a realistic fashion, by a model, based in the pre-quantum classical statistical field theory, the predictions of which reproduce those of quantum mechanics. Moreover, because the continuous fields considered in this model are transformed into discrete clicks of detectors, experimental outcomes in this model depend on the context of measurement in accordance with N. Bohr's interpretation and the statistical Copenhagen interpretation, which coincides with N.\ Bohr's interpretation in this regard'' (abstract by the authors). The authors especially explain such terms like causality, determinism and reality. They intensively discuss the Bohr-Einstein debate concerning quantum physical foundations and the nature of quantum reality. They deal with the quantum probability and the statistical Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. Finally the conceptual features of a local (in the same way as a classical field theory), non-relativistic ``pre-quantum classical statistical field theory'' are presented forming the basis of the realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics by A.\ Khrennikov.