On Mar 4, 7:10 pm, Brent Meeker <meeke...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Collapse "appears" to instruments as well as people - that's why we can > shared records of experiments and agree on them. I'm not sure what you > mean by "account for" collapse. At least one interpretation of QM, > advocated by Peres, Fuchs, and Omnes for example, is that the "collapse" > is purely epistemological. All that changes is our knowledge or model > of the state and QM merely predicts probabilities for this change.
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