Quantizing Geometry or Geometrizing the Quantum?

The unsatisfactory status of the search for a consistent and predictive quantization of gravity is taken as motivation to study the question whether geometrical laws coud be more fundamental than quantization procedures. In such an approach the quantum mechanical laws should emerge from the geometrical theory. A toy model that incorporates the idea is presented and its necessary formulation in configuration space is emphasized.

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Talk given at QTRF 5 conference, 5 pages, typos corrected, reference added

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gravity
quantum mechanics
geometry
causality
Bell theorem

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