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Understanding the Frauchiger-Renner Argument

arXiv
Authors: Jeffrey Bub

Year

2020

Paper ID

21357

Status

Preprint

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In 2018, Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner published an article in Nature Communications entitled `Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself.' I clarify the significance of the result and point out a common and persistent misunderstanding of the argument, which has been attacked as flawed from a variety of interpretational perspectives.

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