Last night lack of sleep found me searching, found the following. Will go around it and find meaning in it, as an augmentation:
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It started with a Russian paper : followed by two others -trying to ties things together, here is the first. Hoping this might stick:
‘ entity and Individuality in Quantum Theory
First published Tue Feb 15, 2000; substantive revision Wed Mar 23, 2011
What are the metaphysical implications of quantum physics? One way of approaching this question is to consider the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. According to the ‘Received View’, which was elaborated as the quantum revolution was taking place, quantum theory implies that the fundamental particles of physics cannot be regarded as individual objects in this sense. Such a view has recently motivated the development of non-standard formal systems which are appropriate for representing such non-individual objects. However, it has also been argued that quantum physics is in fact compatible with a metaphysics of individual objects, but that such objects are indistinguishable in a sense which leads to the violation of Leibniz’s famous Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles. This last claim has recently been contested in a way that has reinvigorated the debate over the impact of the theory with regard to this issue. What we have, then, is a form of underdetermination of the metaphysics of individuality by the physics and it has been argued that this has important implications for the realism-antirealism debate.’
Thanks it did for now
( followed by 2 mentioned before