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GUIDO BACCIAGLUPPI. Why should I want to spoil the fun? ČASLAV BRUKNER. Who cares about the foundations of quantum mechanics when offered an exclusive opportunity for posing a single question to an omniscient being? I would rather like to ask her or him whether death is really worse than the chicken at Tresky’s restaurant (see Woody Allen’s Love and Death).
What single question about the foundations of quantum mechanics would you put to an omniscient being?
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Schlosshauer, M. (2011). Dear Oracle. In: Schlosshauer, M. (eds) Elegance and Enigma. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20880-5_17
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