Reality Does Not Shine, It Twinkles

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The author argues in favour of the position saying that the meaning of the violation of the CHSH inequality is not non-locality but contextuality, a position which seems sound to me. The example of a classical game which violates the Tsireslon bound is interesting. Perhaps a little more explanations to help the reader to understand better what the author call the Processist worldview would be useful because this is not a standard view.

Some misprints or phrases to reformulate:

l 309: given moment in thus

l 430: certain quanum mechanical

l 507: the result their observers

l 518: becuase

l 520: This the deep understanding

Author Response

Thank you for your kind comments. I have corrected the typos. I have expanded the section on worldviews which hopefully will provide a better picture of the Processist view. More details are available in my Process and Time paper. I did not wish to burden the paper unnecessarily. I hope that the additional comments suffice. 

Reviewer 2 Report

In the paper “Reality Dosen’t Shine, It Twinkles“, the author discusses the applicability of the Bell’s inequalities to the famous experiment showing the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum mechanics. As we know, these inequalities were violated in the experiment. However, the results are related to the characteristics of the random variables used in the experiment. In this paper, which is a continuation of the series of articles, the author extends the interpretation of the random variables involved to account for contextuality. The latter mathematically assigns a separate measure to each context of the variables, making it possible to violate the CHSH inequality. The author gives arguments in favor of the existence of contextuality, and proposes an example demonstrating violations of the inequalities in a classical situation, but with contexts. The article is well written and the reasoning is quite thorough. I recommend it for publication.

 

The only remarks I have are:

1. At line 91-93, the sentence “Likewise the smallest possible value occurs if ab = ba′ = a ′ b ′ = −1 and ab′ = 1, yielding a value of -4 for the function. “ seems confusing. It follows from the text that this could be the case. But next, it is justified that really it can’t.

2. There are several typos:

The title: “Dosen’t“;

line 117: “a a cyclic“;

line 121: “conenction“;

line 284: “cear“;

line 387: “asosiated“;

line 489: “whch“;

reference 23: “[52] Dzhafarov ...“

 

Author Response

Thank you for your kind remarks. I have corrected the typos. As to comment number 1, I replaced the original phrase with 

“Conversely, the function will take a value of -4 if $ab=ba'=a'b'=-1$ and $ab'=1$. In that case sign($a$)=-sign($b$), sign($b$)=-sign($a'$), sign($a$)=-sign($b'$) from the first three terms, which implies that sign($a$)=-sign($b$)=sign($a'$)=-sign($b'$), so that the fourth term cannot be positive.” 

 

which hopefully is a little clearer.

Reviewer 3 Report

The paper brings interesting ideas regarding the interpretation of Bell and CHSH inequalities based on the idea con contextualization and on processist emergence. I find that these ideas are adequate to be reported in the paper and hence I recommend the article for publication.

I qualified as low the quality of presentation because the only figure presented in the article in page 9 is of poor quality. I think that the author could have included better and more numerous figures to clarify the example discribed in Sec.4. I have also found several errata, and the author shold spell the manuscript.

1.- 3rd equation of page 2, a prime is lacking in the second a in the arguments of chsh.

2.- Line 179 ``aruged'' instead of ``argued''

3.- Line 489 ``whch'' should be ``which''

4.- Line 523 ``thse'' should be ``these''

Author Response

Thank you for your kind remarks. I have corrected the typos. As to the figure, I m afraid that I am not much of an artist and so I removed the figure from the text and added a little more description. If this is a principle matter I could try to find someone with artistic skills but hopefully it suffices without the figure.