Everett’s Interpretation and Convivial Solipsism

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 Con...

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Main Author: Hervé Zwirn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Quantum Reports
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2624-960X/5/1/18
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Summary: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. However, contrary to Everett’s interpretation, there is only one world. This also allows us to get rid of any non-locality and to provide a solution to the Wigner’s friend problem and its more recent versions.
ISSN:2624-960X