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BIRMAN, Fernando. Quantum mechanics, correlations, and relational probability. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2009, vol.41, n.121, pp.3-22.  Epub 23-Abr-2020. ISSN 0011-1503.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2009.955.

This article sets forth and discusses the Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (IIQM). Section 1 presents the standard formalism of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem. Section 2 sketches Everett’s interpretation as a preamble to IIQM. Section 3 sets out IIQM’s central claim: it is possible to make sense of quantum mechanics by taking as the proper (and only) subject of physics the correlations among subsystems. Section 4 introduces a theorem of quantum mechanics, the SSC theorem, which supports this claim. Section 5 contends that at least two problems exist with IIQM, and one serious objection against it. Section 6 discusses a strategy based on relational probabilities to go around the objection.

Palavras-chave : measurement problem; system/subsystem; dualism; physical reality.

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