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Natural selection acts on the quantum world

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Objective reality may owe its existence to a 'darwinian' process that advertises certain quantum states.

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  1. Philip Ball
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Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico

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Ball, P. Natural selection acts on the quantum world. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041220-12

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