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Recent work by Machida and Namiki [9, 10] on the measurement problem formulates a new and detailed version of the proposal that the problem can be resolved by exploiting the macroscopic nature of the measuring instrument — an idea which has been developed in the literature before in various ways (e.g. by Daneri, Loinger, and Prosperi [6] in terms of a quantum ergodic theory of macrosystems, and by Hepp [7] who, like Machida and Namiki, treats the measuring instrument as a quantum system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom). I review the problem here, and present arguments for taking a particular version of this proposal as the appropriate way to resolve the problem.
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Bub, J. (1989). On the Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics. In: Kafatos, M. (eds) Bell’s Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0849-4_2
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