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Entangled Choices The essence of quantum entanglement (as exhibited in things like EPR experiments and tests of Bell's inequalities) is that the joint probabilities for combinations of spacelike-separated events depend on the choices of particular measurement operations that are applied to entangled systems at those separate events, and moreover that this dependence is non-linear. It is the ...

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Comment on Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics by Michael Lockwood by David Deutsch Centre for Quantum Computation, The Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, U.K. This article appeared in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 222-8 (1996) At the philosophical foundations of our best and deepest theory of the structure of reality, namely ...

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