Nadia Blackshaw proposes many minds interpretation of quantum reality
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Updated · IAI · May 5
Nadia Blackshaw proposes many minds interpretation of quantum reality
1 articles · Updated · IAI · May 5
A century after quantum mechanics emerged, the philosopher says Schrödinger’s cat is alive from one perspective and dead from another, rather than existing across endlessly branching worlds.
She argues the many-worlds interpretation, proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1957, is too extravagant and wrongly seeks a perspective-free account of reality.
Blackshaw says taking conscious perspectives seriously could better address the quantum measurement problem, which asks why physics permits multiple possibilities while each mind experiences only one outcome.
What if Schrödinger's cat is alive and dead, but only in different minds, not different worlds?
With new theories explaining quantum effects, is the multiverse an unnecessary extravagance?