“Quantum-states-as-information” meets Wigner’s friend: A comment on Hagar and Hemmo
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This is a comment on the paper by Hagar and Hemmo (quant-ph/0512095) in which they suggest that information-theoretic approaches to quantum theory are incomplete. Participating Guest, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Electronic address: [email protected]
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