Dark cover with the title The Parts Do Not Determine the Whole, the word Determine in pink italic, over a faint tensor-product symbol: a circle with a diagonal cross through it.

The Parts Do Not Determine the Whole

Join two quantum systems and their state spaces multiply rather than add, and almost nothing in the product comes apart again into a state for each half. A lesson on entanglement for philosophers and theologians: what Bell actually ruled out, why entangled is not the same as non-local, and why the honest claim is a failure of supervenience rather than a disappearance of the parts. … readThe Parts Do Not Determine the Whole