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The argument of this chapter extends primarily from Niels Bohr’s and Werner Heisenberg’s work.1 This argument, however and to some degree the argument of this study as a whole also comprise a meditation on John Archibald Wheeler’s “no” to “continuum” in his quantum-information-theoretical manifesto, “Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links”:
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Plotnitsky, A. (2006). Complementarity, Epistemology, and Quantum Mechanics as an Information Theory. In: Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5254-5_2
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