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Everett’s Interpretation and Convivial Solipsism
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: Received: 15 January 2023 / Approved: 17 January 2023 / Online: 17 January 2023 (01:32:40 CET)
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Zwirn, H. Everett’s Interpretation and Convivial Solipsism. Quantum Rep. 2023, 5, 267-281. Zwirn, H. Everett’s Interpretation and Convivial Solipsism. Quantum Rep. 2023, 5, 267-281.
Abstract
I show how the quantum paradoxes occurring when we adopt a standard realist framework (or a framework in which the collapse implies a physical change of the state of the system) vanish if we abandon the idea that a measurement is related (directly or indirectly) to a physical change of state. In Convivial Solipsism, similarly to Everett’s interpretation, there is no collapse of the wave function. But contrary to Everett’s interpretation, there is only one world. This allows also to get rid of any non-locality and to provide a solution to the Wigner’s friend problem and its more recent versions.
Keywords
Measurement problem; Convivial Solipsism; Everett’s interpretation; QBism; Perspectival interpretation; Realism; Entanglement; Non-locality; EPR experiment; First person point of view; Wigner’s friend
Subject
Physical Sciences, Other
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