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“Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.”

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[Asher Peres, Quantum theory: concepts and methods, Springer, 1995, 0792336321, 373]

“Unperformed experiments have no results.”

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Title of a 1978 paper, [Asher, Peres, American Journal of Physics, 46, 1978, 745, 10.1119/1.11393, Unperformed experiments have no results]

“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.”

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