Wigner's friend in context
History and Philosophy of Physics
2019-09-09 v3
Abstract
Wigner's friend is commonly invoked in discussion of quantum mechanics and its interpretation.. but who is the friend really? The publishing context of Wigner's article is not widely appreciated. A recent paper by Ballentine is relevant.
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@article{arxiv.1903.00392,
title = {Wigner's friend in context},
author = {Raymond S. Mackintosh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00392},
year = {2019}
}
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