Consciousness and the Wigner's friend problem

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1943-1966

  D'Espagnat, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Decoherence; Measurement; Reality; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144454534     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-8656-1     Document Type: Review

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