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The ins and outs of Schrodinger's cat box: a response to Papineau

2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 64; Issue: 282 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-8284.2004.00478.x

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Paul Tappenden,

Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

The so-called many-worlds or many-minds interpretations of quantum mechancis, derived from the work of Hugh Everett III (1957), continue to have a very mixed reception among the well-informed, partly because of the theories' weirdness. Peter Lewis (2000) has argued that an important class of these interpretations have the extraordinary implication that a subject confronted by apparently life-threatening situations involving quantum measurement should be fully confident of having future experience. David Papineau (2003) has attempted to block Lewis's argument and I shall argue that the attempt fails.