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    Challenges→One cannot credibly defend the metaphysical possibility of a plurality of coexistent omnipotent agents by drawing an analogy with the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.

    By analogy with entanglement, if a plurality of coexistent omnipotent agents is possible, then there could be 'entangled' omnipotent agents A1 and A2 such that it is metaphysically necessary that A1 endeavors to bring about a certain state of affairs if and only if A2 endeavors to bring about the same state of affairs.

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    A plurality of coexistent agents(as used in this philosophical argument)
    Multiple beings that exist at the same time and in the same reality.
    Endeavors(as used in this philosophical argument)
    Attempts or tries to do something; makes an effort toward a goal.
    Metaphysically necessary(as used in modal metaphysics)
    Something that must be true in all possible ways the world could be; it's not just true in our world but couldn't possibly be false in any imaginable scenario.

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    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    entanglement(Quantum mechanics)
    A quantum state of two separated systems exhibiting statistical correlations between measurement outcomes of dynamical quantities (such as polarization or spin) that cannot be explained by common cause assumptions
    omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
    A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
    state of affairs(Chisholm 1970)
    A genus of which both events and facts are treated as species, used to capture their close ontological kinship without fully identifying them.

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    Another possible defense of the possibility of a plurality of coexistent omnipotent agents appeals to quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement seems to be a unique physical phenomenon whereby concurrent activities of diverse contingently existing substantial individuals are directly coordinated in virtue of a necessary linkage of some sort between those substantial individuals. By drawing an analogy with this phenomenon, one might argue that there could be coexistent omnipotent agents who necessarily avoid stalemates. Quantum mechanics implies that there exist pairs of entangled micro-particles...

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