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The subject-object distinction is indeed at the very root of the unease that many people still feel in connection with quantum mechanics. Some such distinction is dictated by the postulates of the theory, but exactly where or when to make it is not prescribed.
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A more extreme position would be that the beables need refer only to mental events.
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See, for example: R. Haag, in Lectures on Elementary Particles and Quantum Field Theory, 1970 Brandeis Lectures (Editors S. Deser, M. Grisaru and H. Pendleton), M.I.T. Press (1970). In this theory the over-all system need not be finite. The idea that the measurement problem might be significantly different in such a context has sometimes been expressed.3,7,9.
See, for example, the preface to B. d’Espagnat’s Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Benjamin, New York (1971).
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Bell, J.S. (1973). Subject and Object. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_34
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