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Carlo Rovelli’s inspiring “Relational Quantum Mechanics” serves several aims at once: it provides a new vision of what the world of quantum mechanics is like, and it offers a program to derive the theory’s formalism from a set of simple postulates pertaining to information processing. I propose here to concentrate entirely on the former, to explore the world of quantum mechanics as Rovelli depicts it. It is a fascinating world in part because of Rovelli’s reliance on the information-theory approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and in part because its presentation involves taking sides on a fundamental divide within philosophy itself.
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I happily dedicate this paper to Jeffrey Bub, whose work has inspired me for a good quarter of a century.
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van Fraassen, B.C. Rovelli’s World.Found Phys40, 390–417 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-009-9326-5
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