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A Quantum-Mechanical Automaton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

David Z. Albert
David Z. Albert*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
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Abstract

A Quantum-Mechanical automaton, equipped with mechanisms for the measurement and the recording and the prediction of certain physical properties of the world, is described. It is inquired what sort of empirical description such an automaton would produce of itself. It turns out that this description would be a very novel one, one such as was never imagined in the conventional discussions of measurement.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 1987 , pp. 577 - 585
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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