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> It's a question to the philosophers, not the scientists.

As discussed upthread, this is all philosophy. The popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are all experimentally equivalent, so we need to use elegance, intuitiveness, troubling-ness, etc to choose between them (and these can be highly personal).

EDIT: After re-reading your comment I think I'm agreeing with you here.



You can also use the `operational non-interpretation', and just use the math to calculate without worrying about what it `means'.

(That's pretty close to the spirit of the Copenhagen interpretation, though.)




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