Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
24.111 · Linguistics and Philosophy · Undergraduate · Spring 2005
Prof. Edward Hall
<p>Quantum mechanics–even in the ordinary, non-relativistic, “particle” formulation that will be the primary focus of this course–has been a staggeringly successful physical theory, surely one of the crowning achievements of 20th century science. It’s also rather bizarre–bizarre enough to lead very intelligent and otherwise sensible people to make such claims as that the universe is perpetually splitting into many copies of itself, that conscious minds have the power to make physical systems “j…
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