Re: Is State Vector Reduction a 'Process'?



In article <1118659478.518851.280290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"I.Vecchi" <vecchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Aaron Bergman wrote:
> > for any
> > experiment you can describe where a human observer can gain information,
> > there isn't going to be a problem.
>
> Maybe, but then you are saying that the measurement process is "human
> observer"-dependent, right?

I'm describing a pragmatic approach. In general, I don't think that
decoherence solves the problem of measurement. But, if we postulate that
measurements occur as I describe, then decoherence describes how the
macroscopic and microscopic observables entangle and select the basis
for the microscopic observables.

Aaron

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