Anthropomorphic Quantum Darwinism as an explanation for Classicality
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Nevertheless, quantum mechanics is astonishingly adequate if we want to describe the material world in which we live. It is therefore natural to assume that the way we think has something to do with quantum mechanics. After all, if our worldview faithfully reflects the external world, it ought to reflect also its internal properties at the deepest level! For this reason, it is really interesting and important to reconsider epistemological questions in the light of the most recent conceptual developments of the quantum theory. A key concept in these issues is the so-called quantum entanglement.
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