Quantum Measurement Act as a Speech Act
Abstract
I show that the quantum measurement problem can be understood if the measurement is seen as a "speech act" in the sense of modern language theory. The reduction of the state vector is in this perspective an intersubjective -- or, better, a-subjective -- symbolic process. I then give some perspectives on applications to the "Mind-Body Problem".
- Publication:
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Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0504199
- Bibcode:
- 2005etqs.conf..345S
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Measurement;
- Mind-Body Problem;
- Language;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- submitted to "Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective,", R. Buccheri, A.C. Elitzur and M. Saniga (eds.), World Scientific