A Causal Symmetry Approach to Quantum Nonlocality and Information

A Causal Symmetry Approach to Quantum Nonlocality and Information This paper develops a time-symmetric informational formulation of quantum mechanics in which both initial and final boundary conditions jointly constrain physical evolution. Quantum randomness is treated as a manifestation of incomplete information about correlations that extend across time, rather than as fundamental indeterminacy. The core concept is an informational coupling κ that quantifies how strongly the temporal boundaries are aligned. κ is derived from entropy balance and mutual information and defines a dissipative, completely positive, trace-preserving dynamics with a unique informational equilibrium state. This dynamics preserves no-signaling and admits a standard generator of open-system type, but with the “environment” reinterpreted as a future boundary condition instead of a physical bath. Conceptually, the framework is close to two-state and transactional approaches, yet it avoids hidden variables and superdeterministic assumptions by working directly at the level of the density operator and information-theoretic quantities. The paper links κ to thermodynamic quantities, yielding a generalized second law and a clear relation between information flow and heat in the spirit of informational thermodynamics. It also outlines a delayed-choice quantum random number generator as a realistic experimental test to estimate or bound κ. In the limit κ → 0, standard quantum mechanics is recovered; for nonzero κ, small but measurable deviations encode informational feedback between temporal boundaries. The result is a causally symmetric picture in which determinism and statistical behavior are unified through information rather than sacrificed to fundamental randomness.