A Quantum-Mechanical Automaton
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 54 (4) , 577-585
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289406
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.Keywords
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